Element public roadmap

#1

Post by reimbar » Sun, Dec 06, 2020, 11:55 PM UTC

Element public roadmap
github.com

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#2

Post by geoah » Sun, Dec 06, 2020, 11:59 PM UTC

Tour of the element roadmap from a couple of days ago https://youtu.be/qnHAAkY2Cx0

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#3

Post by Snitch-Thursday » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 1:54 PM UTC

Every time I get a hankering to try out forking Ensichat or implementing a quick-n-dirty self-host-server-friendly Signal Protocol-based chat application, I stop myself because Matrix is doing it all, and much better than I can.

P2P Matrix homeserver on your phone or computer with multiple accounts will be the Syncthing of chat applications: slightly more scary and painful to setup the first time, then completely forgettable and pleasant to use long term - 500 chat services, 1 chat app, will finally be a solved problem again. Last time it was, we were all using Pidgin or Windows Phone hub!

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#4

Post by mainstreem » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 2:43 PM UTC

Snitch-Thursday wrote: post #3

Every time I get a hankering to try out forking Ensichat or implementing a quick-n-dirty self-host-server-friendly Signal Protocol-based chat application, I stop myself because Matrix is doing it all, and much better than I can. P2P Matrix homeserver on your phone or computer with multiple accounts will be the Syncthing of chat applications: slightly more scary and painful to setup the first time, then completely for…

LOL have you ever run Synapse? When I tried it out, it took like an hour on a dedicated NUC back in 2017 or so to join the network and provide connectivity to the main channel for ONE USER, and this was on an i7 with 16GB of RAM!

RUN IT ON A PHONE?! LOL

Maybe it's been heavily optimized since then. I'm sure Arathorn will come out of the woodwork to correct me.

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#5

Post by _bfoy » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

geoah wrote: post #2

Tour of the element roadmap from a couple of days ago https://youtu.be/qnHAAkY2Cx0

That links explains why there are private links in it. tldr; Those links will be replaced with public cards soonTM.

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#6

Post by lwhalen » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 3:35 PM UTC

Sad to see 2fa is at the bottom of the still later" deck

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Post by Arathorn » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 9:35 PM UTC

lwhalen wrote: post #6

Sad to see 2fa is at the bottom of the still later" deck

This is because SSO lets you do it today (via keycloak or auth0 or whatever). 2FA here is effectively an optimisation for those not using SSO. Also, cross signing is effectively is a form of 2FA already.