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Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by hutrdvnj » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 6:22 AM UTC

stryan wrote: post #7

hutrdvnj wrote: post #2

Does matrix support threads?

Threading is on the roadmap and should be coming Soonish (prototypes of it are already implemented in Dendrite, matrix.org's beta server). Until then, it does support Reply messages similar to Discords.

A that's good to hear. It's basically the last missing feature that hold my company back from using matrix. BTW, Discord does have threads now.

Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by Arathorn » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 7:20 AM UTC

freeopinion wrote: post #41

Arathorn wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

This site is requiring an email address to register a matrix.org account. Odd. Then I'm guessing it has a captcha. I'm not sure because it fails to load with Privacy Badger enabled. My attention just wandered away. Hopefully they can address some basic privacy concerns and get another at-bat. Edit: Seems that matrix.org is now requiring an email address.

yup, we mandate email on matrix.org atm as an anti spam measure

Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by kfiven » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 9:59 AM UTC

freeopinion wrote: post #41

Arathorn wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

This site is requiring an email address to register a matrix.org account. Odd. Then I'm guessing it has a captcha. I'm not sure because it fails to load with Privacy Badger enabled. My attention just wandered away. Hopefully they can address some basic privacy concerns and get another at-bat. Edit: Seems that matrix.org is now requiring an email address.

CAPTCHA is enforced by server itself, so client is just following that.

Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by lucideer » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 10:21 AM UTC

rozenmd wrote: post #58

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This direct link will 404: https://app.cinny.in/login But if you go to the homepage (index.html) and click on Login it will do the weird little SPA routing thing and load the page correctly. I'm guessing netlify needs to route every URL path to the index.html? SPA apps have just fundamentally broken the web.

That's not a SPA breaking the web, it's just misconfigured.

Technically yes, but the fact that SPAs require explicit and extra code/configuration to make them work when this functionality (url nav) is a works-by-default inherent part of the web's core design makes them arguably broken by design.

Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by emaro » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 10:36 AM UTC

Looks very clean. I'm looking forward to a more capable version of Cinny.

The validation on the login page is a bit annoying though. I'd like to paste a Matrix address like @username:domain.org.

Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by ajbura » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 10:50 AM UTC

emaro wrote: post #65

Looks very clean. I'm looking forward to a more capable version of Cinny. The validation on the login page is a bit annoying though. I'd like to paste a Matrix address like @username:domain.org.

You can paste localpart with @ also. So @username in username and domain.org in Homeserver.

Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by ajbura » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 11:07 AM UTC

ushakov wrote: post #27

i love the design any plans for mobile? maybe give react native and react-native-web a try!

First priority is a somewhat regularly usable responsive PWA for desktop as well as mobile.

Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by ushakov » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 3:10 PM UTC

ajbura wrote: post #67

ushakov wrote: post #27

i love the design any plans for mobile? maybe give react native and react-native-web a try!

First priority is a somewhat regularly usable responsive PWA for desktop as well as mobile.

sure, thanks for getting back!

Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by Arathorn » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 3:27 PM UTC

fouc wrote: post #46

So dumb question about Matrix.. any long-time IRCers use it? How did you make the transition? Is it straight forward to use weechat with it? If you abandoned the irc client, is it easy to keep personal logs?

The matrix core team was very much long-time IRCers (opering networks since late-90s) before we embarked on Matrix, so we've tried to make it a decent transition. The python weechat-matrix plugin is pretty good (in my opinion, although others seem to have had bad experiences). Matrix itself stores your conversation history for you, so most people don't bother storing separate logs. There are tools to let you maintain separate logs though, e.g. https://github.com/russelldavies/matrix-archive - and log export is also currently being added to Element.

Re: Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

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Post by coldblues » Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 4:49 PM UTC

When will we get native, beautiful, and fast Matrix clients? I am very tired of Electron and web applications, I want a snappy experience for once. Please.