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For those interested in self-hosting the home server, I would recommend https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy - the documentation is fantastic and it’s very well maintained.
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Currently we're using AWS (but we're hoping to become more cloud agnostic in the future). (I head up Element Matrix Services)
> Currently we're using AWS (but we're hoping to become more cloud agnostic in the future). If you're not using Lightsail, you're overpaying. Look at this comparison: https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/compare/ec2_vs_vultr AWS bandwidth through anything but Lightsail is 1000 times more expensive. AWS servers are 3-5x more expensive. AWS isn't successful because it's good, it's successful because it has good marketing. Loo…
As for AWS, yep, they're certainly not cheap, but they do have good points in quite a few areas and give you a great number of tools to build with. Hopefully the trick is not to get too dependent upon their infrastructure, and we'll definitely be looking to other cloud platforms to help bring the costs down in future.
> Is Element hiring, by the way? Here's a look at my skills, if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26305569
Yes, we are hiring (and are rapidly growing at the moment)! Thanks for the link - I'll pass it on to one of the team (not just saying that, I really will). That said, in the mean time you're probably best to have a look at the open positions (https://apply.workable.com/elementio/) and see if there's something there that particularly takes your fancy. If there is, apply, and say that Rick from EMS sent you via way of HN ;)
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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 running with their own home on Matrix as quickly and easily as possible. Under the hood Element Home servers and our smaller / Nickel products are pretty similar (similar resource allocations etc.). The main differences are in the setup pro…
Ok! Thanks for the detailed answer, that makes sense. Maybe could the comparison page do with another point in Home's favour to this effect?
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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 Active bit can be quite important. What this means is that you're not charged for the number of users registered on your server, but the number who are actively using the server. Users are only considered as "active" and counting towards the…
This is so much more expensive than Slack. If you were comparable you might have a sell with E2EE but this seems way off. [edit: seems like I failed to parse Slack's pricing page. Slack is expensive as hell. Carry on]
> €6.25 per active user per month billed annually. > Or, €7.50 per active user per month, billed monthly.
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AFAIK they do, just not in a way that anyone but the sender and receiver(s) can read.
Encrypted messages are stored on their servers only until they are delivered, and then deleted. From their privacy policy: Messages. Signal cannot decrypt or otherwise access the content of your messages or calls. Signal queues end-to-end encrypted messages on its servers for delivery to devices that are temporarily offline (e.g. a phone whose battery has died). Your message history is stored on your own devices. Add…
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As you probably saw in the blog post, the ability to do this is currently only offered via the desktop app, which I do not use. I only use the web interface, the Android app, and a non-Element matrix client. Element said in the blog post that it will add this option to the Android app, and once it does, I will use it and subscribe. Hopefully that answers your question.
The Element desktop app SEGFAULTs on startup when I run it on Debian (partly "unstable", like everybody). Curiously, a prior version used to work, and then recently started crashing with no apparent changes, and still crashes apparently the same way after upgrading to the latest release. It is possible that one of its 100+ library dependencies updated, and Element depends on behavior not retained. I have not dug into…
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Is there a whatsapp bridge?
Yes, but it is not being offered as a hosted service atm: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp https://element.io/element-matrix-store
Better for everyone to run their own bridges...
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This is so much more expensive than Slack. If you were comparable you might have a sell with E2EE but this seems way off. [edit: seems like I failed to parse Slack's pricing page. Slack is expensive as hell. Carry on]
Are you kdding? Slack is at least three times that: > €6.25 per active user per month billed annually. > Or, €7.50 per active user per month, billed monthly. https://slack.com/pricing/standard?from_pricing=1
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> For 5 bucks a month I run my own server with almost a dozen folks on it, which requires basically zero maintenance (I can count the number of times I've had to go in and restart it over the past two years on one hand). Yes, but how much work was it to get set up in the first place? There's a reason that people pay for Wordpress subscriptions, even though you and I can set up static hosting off Gitlab pages (for exa…
Anecdotally, it took me about an afternoon. I realize that I'm more technical than the average person, so setting up the certs and installing the python deps was a breeze because I've done it before; the documentation for the synapse homeserver was also quite good. I see where you're coming from, but is this offering geared towards people like that? Looks like there's a significant push to get people who've had their…
For those interested in self-hosting the home server, I would recommend https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy - the documentation is fantastic and it’s very well maintained.
Oh, and there's no way to prevent receiving these messages. They arrive on the same endpoint as non-presence messages, and you can't signal to the sender to stop sending them.