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I wonder how this will effect Riot, now Element
by 0des 4y ago
I wonder how this will effect Riot, now Element
- woojoo666 4y agoThere are multiple chat clients that support Matrix already [1], Element is just one of them. Separation of concerns is a good thing as products mature [1]: https://matrix.org/clients/ https://matrix.org/clients/
- 0des 4y agoThe question was due to the tight relationship between the two, not due to a misunderstanding. Im a daily user of Matrix, many clients.
- woojoo666 4y agoI see, my mistake. The coupling is definitely tight. I think the developers across Matrix and Element are largely the same too right? Ideally I would hope that the Matrix team can focus on the protocol, but I can see why they needed to build Element as a way to sell the protocol to the masses. But perhaps now that we have fully-featured front-ends like Rocket chat joining in, the Matrix team can dedicate more of them time to the protocol
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoI suspect the market is different enough to matter. Rocket.Chat caters heavily to the Slack/Teams-type business chat. Federation to it likely often means federating with partner businesses also using Rocket.Chat. Element targets individuals participating largely in public chat rooms, I suspect it's design will remain significantly different for that reason. Different apps with different purposes, but compatible.
- 0des 4y agoI wouldnt count Element as a single-user only offering, as there is significant effort on enterprise as [its*] source of income. https://element.io/enterprise-collaboration https://element.io/enterprise-collaboration