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Signal is a great choice for non tech people, it looks and works like what they already know. Matrix is definitely better, but we're quite a few steps away fro

• defrost 3y ago
  Speaking as a grandparent that wrote a chunk of the backend of the first iteration of [-1] I reckon I can handle it. Hell, even great grandmothers can breeze through that stuff [e] [-1] http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/ http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/ [e] https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/cheryl-praeger https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/cheryl-pra...
  • TheHappyOddish 3y ago
    That's very cool and well beyond my skillset! However I think the generalisation is still fair. The experience of most Matrix clients and concepts is not great for those who do not have an IT background, or users who find technology difficult (correlated in this case with those who didn't grow up with it). The median boomer or older is likely to find it more difficult than a millenial.
    • neilv 3y ago
      Wouldn't hurt to find new shorthand terms for different kinds of users. "Grandma" has all sorts of positive connotations, but some discussions in HCI and product design have loaded it to mean not good at some things, when that's not necessarily even generally true. And I suppose the idea, casually propagated, could be a little insulting, or even professionally harmful to people. Maybe a mental exercise to make this intuitive is to imagine a workplace meeting, and someone calling a colleague "grandma", while meaning pretty much what is meant here. They'd rightly get smacked across the room, figuratively, with a chance of literally.