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element-x-ios reviews and mentions

• Matrix 2.0 Is Here
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2024

  That's ended up becoming a global setting, which merged a few days ago (https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/pull/3467) so hasn't been released yet. We're catching up on features as rapidly as possible - meanwhile i'm surprised that the advantages of the new app donn't completely blow away the old one.

• Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2024

  > Element is meaningfully worse to actually use. And it's still the best Matrix client I personally have used.

  fwiw we’ve spent the last few years fixing this, starting with mobile, and Element X is the result: https://element.io/labs/element-x. it’s more of a whatsapp/imessage/signal replacement rather than a discord replacement right now, but i really hope we fixed the UX this time.

• Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2024

  Matrix is a protocol, not an app, and it's still evolving rapidly.

  Meanwhile, Element as an app is also evolving rapidly too. Totally agreed that the onboarding has been awful in the past, but we're plugging away improving it and trying to make it more glossy and less neckbeardy, as per https://element.io/labs/element-x etc.

  The fact is that Discord has raised $1B+ to run a centralised unencrypted comms platform; meanwhile Element is doing something ~10x harder (decentralised & E2EE) with a tiny fraction of the $. It takes longer, but the difference is that Matrix should last indefinitely, whereas Discord will get Eloned sooner or later.

  I wouldn't say we've lost yet, but ymmv. I do wish we'd progressed faster though.

• Don't Use Discord for FOSS
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2024

  Element X is not finished or intended for average users yet, as https://element.io/labs/element-x makes clear. It’s a preview of the future of Element.

• Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
• Bluesky and the at Protocol
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2024

  i’d have been in danger of agreeing a year ago, but thankfully we proved otherwise with Element X: https://element.io/labs/element-x. Bit embarassing that we didn’t get there sooner, but human fallibility and all that.

• Flutter seems to be having bad times internally
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2023

  Yep, a good example is the element X rewrite

  They use Jetpack on Android

  https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-android

  And SwiftUI on iOS

  https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-ios

  But both use the same underlying Matrix Rust SDK

  https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk

  So they share the core part of the app between platforms, but everything user facing is native

• Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2023

  And the cake under the cherry is… Element X is open-source[1][2]!

  I really can't wait for Beeper[3] to rebuild their fork on top of Element X (it's currently based on Element, formerly called Riot). If this happens this will be an absolute game-changer in the messaging ecosystem.

  [1] https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-ios

  [2] https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-android

  [3] https://www.beeper.com/

• Element X Matrix client now on iOS early release
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jul 2023

  Yes, eventually. Right now the sliding sync MSC is still in flux (e.g. we just realised today that it's missing an explicit flag to notify once the client has caught up with the server, rather than guessing via heuristics: https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-ios/issues/1269#issue...). As a result, the implementation (which is in golang) is being kept separate from Synapse for now while we iterate on it; plus it's a separate set of folks working on it. This also means that SS can be used with any existing server (dendrite, conduit etc) as needed.

  It'll get added natively to Synapse eventually, but it'll likely be quite a way off.

• Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
  28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023

  Element X is an entirely new client written in Rust + Swift UI/Jetpack Compose (https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-ios and https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-android) which will eventually replace the legacy Element apps (https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios and https://github.com/vector-im/element-android).

  The features already exist serverside; we're just working on getting them out of beta.

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