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HolidayHuckle

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    Comment #26318191

    Yep, it's a good point (thanks for the feedback). I'll see what we can come up with.

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    Comment #26318046

    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 fe…

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    Comment #26316754

    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 t…

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    Comment #26316437

    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 Actuall…

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    Comment #26315686

    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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    Comment #26315598

    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…

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    Comment #26315456

    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 Ma…

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    Comment #26314868

    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 tho…

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    Comment #26314695

    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 A…

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    Comment #26314614

    Thanks for the report on that. I'll get someone to look into it asap.

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    Comment #26314594

    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 …

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    Comment #19795393

    > 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 b…