HolidayHuckle

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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
Yep, it's a good point (thanks for the feedback). I'll see what we can come up with.
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
Thanks for the info on Lightsail. We'll look in to it as one of the options for the future. As for AWS, yep, they're certainly not cheap, but they do have good points in quite a few areas and give you a great number of tools to bu
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
As you rightly say, you can use any client for Element Home and the only restriction is that the in-app setup and migration wizard is only available in the Element web clients at the moment (this is now corrected in the blog article). That
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
Yep, as you say, you get to chat with anyone in the Matrix ecosystem (or even further afield if you use bridges). > You can only have 5 people with addresses at your server Actually, it's better than this. You can technically have a
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
Currently we're using AWS (but we're hoping to become more cloud agnostic in the future). (I head up Element Matrix Services)
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
Ahh... thanks for pointing that out. That was a mistake in the blog article (fixed now). In fact the migrator only works on the web apps at the moment (not desktop or mobile). That said, even if the in-app migrator isn't available to o
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
As some of the others have said, custom DNS is largely for vanity and discoverability reasons. People know that they can find your website on your domain, why not chat to you on Matrix there too? :) In addition to that though, there's
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
Hi - Yep, we totally get that this won't be for everyone. We're currently looking for ways to be able to increase the efficiency of these smaller servers and to be able to pass those cost reductions on to customers. We've als
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
Up to 5 Monthly Active Users are included in your subscription. After that you can add additional users at an additional $2 per user per month. It's worth noting that the Monthly Active bit can be quite important. What this means is th
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
Thanks for the report on that. I'll get someone to look into it asap.
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by HolidayHuckle 6y ago
Hi - I head up Element Matrix Services (EMS), so hopefully I can answer some of these questions for you. Element home is really aimed at helping to get less technical users up and running with their own home on Matrix as quickly and easily
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New Vector (the guys behind the Matrix protocol) have just raised $8.5M funding(techcrunch.com)
7 points by HolidayHuckle 7y ago|0 comments
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by HolidayHuckle 7y ago
> But another example could be that they want their Riot to default to their homeserver and not to matrix.org. This isn't valid. They could absolutely ship Riot with its existing branding, with a config set to use their (or any othe