Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix

I didn't know Rocket.Chat, but it looks like a decent OpenSource alternative to Slack. The fact they are switching to Matrix seems like a bigger win to Matrix than Rocket.Chat.

Rocket.Chat is a real world chat client that seems to have some success and they just decided to delegate an important part of their stack to a third party project. What better validation do you expect than that?

Re: Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix

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Post by 0des » Tue, May 31, 2022, 5:34 PM UTC

mistermann wrote: post #3

A new implementation of the same thing, now on a different platform. Is it just me or does it seem like there are certain places where there is little innovation?

We must return to AIM.

Re: Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix

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Post by phoe-krk » Tue, May 31, 2022, 5:44 PM UTC

mistermann wrote: post #3

A new implementation of the same thing, now on a different platform. Is it just me or does it seem like there are certain places where there is little innovation?

You can only reinvent text chat in so many ways before you converge to the de-facto standard most people are using nowadays.

Re: Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Tue, May 31, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

mistermann wrote: post #3

A new implementation of the same thing, now on a different platform. Is it just me or does it seem like there are certain places where there is little innovation?

I'd argue basic chat functionality is a solved problem, and if Rocket.Chat deprecates their need to build and support that, they can focus entirely on value add/innovation.

Re: Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix

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Post by 0des » Tue, May 31, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

phoe-krk wrote: post #4

ramboldio wrote: post #2

This is what a aquisition in Open Source land looks like.. :D

Gee, I wonder who acquired Fediverse then - everyone's speaking ActivityPub. /s

As someone curious about this comment, can you articulate it in a way that would work in spoken words? the /s throws it off, like when people speak verbal hashtags, and my brain flies into the wall at velocity trying to break it down.