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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ThatGeoGuy on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:41PM (#11725742)
And interesting enough, Matrix faces a different problem than Signal: It doesn't have many good clients at all (at least, last I had checked a few months back). I will agree it would be very nice if Matrix was the dominant messaging protocol that everyone needed to speak with their friends. However, that's not feasible until somebody makes an easy-to-use, beautiful Android and iOS client that doesn't require the user to install multiple bridges or wrangle several accounts to chat with their friends.
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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ryukafalz on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @06:55PM (#11726678)
Vector is now out on both Android[1] and iOS[2], and the web version of Vector has improved significantly.

It doesn't have end to end encryption support yet, but they're working on it.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.vector.alph... 2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vector.im/id1083446067

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by Arathorn on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @08:19PM (#11727075)
Yup, it's very true that until recently native Matrix clients have been geared up for developers. Hopefully the arrival of FOSS yet polished apps like Vector (https://vector.im) changes that - and meanwhile one can always benefit from Matrix via bridges from existing polished apps (e.g. Slack!)
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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by anc84 on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @06:36PM (#11726582)
Vector and recently Tensor are pretty awesome.
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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by zanny on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:05PM (#11725959)
I have no experience with iOS anything, but at least the Matrix Console Android client is pretty good for what I use it for. It even supports multiple simultaneous accounts which I really appreciate. I believe the iOS version of it is very similar.
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