This is gorgeous! Have you considered adding it to matrix.org/clients?
It would also be interesting to know a little bit more how the hard features are implemented. Key exchange and cross signing in E2EE? Plans for "native" VoIP?
Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
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Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
#32i wonder if the Show HN link should be changed to go straight to https://cinny.in ? The app is really impressively well done - goes to show how well an entirely fresh React app can run on top of matrix-js-sdk (and thus how much snappier Element can be :)
It looks like I can not change it now.
@dang can change it, though
Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
#33I appreciate, so much, that you call out and focused on proper spacing for layout.
This is hands down my biggest pet peeve with so many open source projects and an outright reason I won't use some of them.
Amazing job.
Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
#34Really wanted to try this, and am still looking forward to at some point, but for some reason my password is invalid to the client and presents 'M_FORBIDDEN: Invalid password' despite it being a cryptographically secure random-gen password in my vault - presumably because it doesn't have a special character in it.
It would be cool if this limitation was a little more up front - While I can spin up a copy on my own and adjust the limitation myself, I don't think everyone's going to want to do that.
Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is this still a thing? I think all tech people hate it, and all non-tech people use "Password1".
Some tech people hate it so much that they delegate it to a password manager. ;)
As a side-note, I wish I could give lastpass a regex or pattern or something to check auto-generate guesses against (it would be great to have a [trusted] library of these, too). I often end up regenerating or tweaking my auto generate settings a few times for every new account I create to get around this stuff.
Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
#36Really happy to see more implementations with the Matrix protocol. The official implementations leave a little to be desired so it's good to see different takes on it.
Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
#37Explain to me again why it isn't crazy to type your username and password into the login form of some random webpage you've never heard of?
Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
#38Explain to me again why it isn't crazy to type your username and password into the login form of some random webpage you've never heard of?
you should really use a test account when experimenting with random matrix clients. meanwhile we’re looking at adding OAuth 2 to Matrix by default so your server is the one that auths you, rather than a random client: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2964#issuecomm...
Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
#39This is gorgeous! Have you considered adding it to matrix.org/clients? It would also be interesting to know a little bit more how the hard features are implemented. Key exchange and cross signing in E2EE? Plans for "native" VoIP?
PRs are welcome against github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org to list clients :)
(it looks like cinny is built on matrix-js-sdk, which also powers element web, so inherits the e2ee support and could inherit voip etc from there).
Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is this still a thing? I think all tech people hate it, and all non-tech people use "Password1".
Some tech people hate it so much that they delegate it to a password manager. ;)
Password managers are great until you need to log in on someone else’s machine. Especially when you don’t have your device on you. It’s bitten me before.