Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps

Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by Krasnol on Saturday November 14, 2020 @05:45PM (#25096375)

I would love to have a easy and fast deployable Element server for my companies internal network. IT tried it twice already and failed somewhere along the way which took them too long to fix the problems they had with it. Mattermosts Omnibus installation is something we'd be looking for.

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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by 40four on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:18AM (#25098759)

I’m don’t mean this in a mean way, but if I were you that would not give me a great deal of confidence in my IT department’s level of talent. I’m assuming you are talking about setting up a Synapse server, not the Element web client.

I’ll admit, the documentation isn’t perfect. But it’s pretty good, and they should be able to set it up. There’s a few things I think could be more explicit in the docs, but even a mediocre set of sys-admin skills should be able to fill in the gaps.

I’m not an IT guy, or a sys-admin. I’m just a lowly, mid-level web developer :) But I was recently able to successfully setup my own Synapse server as per the docs, the very first attempt.

However, to your point. A more streamlined, or ‘automatic’ installation option would be fantastic!

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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by stryan on Saturday November 14, 2020 @06:15PM (#25096590)

If your IT group is alright with docker, the matrix-docker-ansible-deploy[1] is excellent quality and very quick and easy to setup/manage.

[1]: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

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