Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by thenomad on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:14PM
(#11013791)
OK, I'm rather impressed. I was expecting this to be, shall we say, at usual FOSS levels of user-friendliness for non-technical users, but the new client (Vector) is very easy to get started with.
I'd suggest making it clear that Vector is by far the most user-friendly way to use Matrix if you want to attract non-technical users to the service, but otherwise, well done.
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by oddvar on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:27PM
(#11014626)
Thanks! Vector (http://vector.im) has had a lot of UI/UX focus - but the nice thing with Matrix is that it enables you to pick the type of app/client that you like - and whether that's a web client like Vector, a terminal client like weechat (http://matrix.org/blog/project/weechat-plugin/), a mobile app, or even a different service like IRC - that's entirely up to you!
Check out http://matrix.org/blog/try-matrix-now/ for a list of clients/apps that support Matrix!
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by outworlder on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:02PM
(#11014944)
This looks incredible! Thanks for posting it.
Now, they mention that it can be used for decentralized machine communication too. I wonder if there any projects taking advantage of that.
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by st3v3r on Monday February 01, 2016 @04:59PM
(#11015857)
But using those bridges, how can I be assured that someone on the other side has access to stuff like file transfers or code snippets, or any of the other features?
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by oddvar on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:11PM
(#11015967)
You can't. Bridging necessarily means least common denominator for features. But any matrix client should support the features listed in the spec.
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by sandGorgon on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:15PM
(#11014473)
this is very cool. has this ever been ProductHunt-ed?
EDIT: clicking on https://vector.im/beta/#/room/!cURbafjkfsMDVwdRDQ:matrix.org takes a long time to load. is this a consequence of the server ..or is the protocol slower ?
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by oddvar on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:21PM
(#11014544)
hi - it's not normally this slow - and the slightly increased traffic due to the comment above shouldn't have caused it. We're looking into it!
and thanks for trying it out :)
edit: AFAIK we've not been featured on product hunt
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by sandGorgon on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:26PM
(#11014618)
it is probably more relevant for the HN crowd to link directly to http://matrix.org/blog/try-matrix-now/
https://matrix.org is an open standard defining a communication protocol. The goal is to have an open ecosystem where any app can talk to any other app. You can talk to Matrix either natively - or via a bridge. We already have written bridges to IRC, Slack, XMPP and libpurple - if you visit #matrix on freenode you are also talking in the #matrix:matrix.org (https://vector.im/beta/#/room/#matrix:matrix.org) room in Matrix (and vice versa).
You can even connect to Matrix via your IRC client via http://pto.im/
Matrix is decentralised, you can run your own server (clone our server or write your own) and servers will create federated networks on a need-to-know per-room basis (see http://matrix.org/#about).
Matrix is free software, all our code is Apache2 licensed, you can clone it (https://github.com/matrix-org) and use as-it, modify it - or write your own client client and/or server (http://matrix.org/docs/spec/r0.0.1/)!
disclaimer: I work for Matrix.org!