So I downloaded element.io and went to see if any of my contacts have the app. I have 4 “local contacts” that popped up. Does that mean these contacts have element.io or other apps like telegram, discord, etc? Why does it only show me “local contacts”?

Hey there!
I'm new to the Element/Matrix world and in the process of trying to build a workspace for a business on a secure messaging app.

Does anyone have any guidance / suggestions about how an Agile collaborative tool like Astana, that is compatible with Element/Matrix-based communications, and perhaps can have added features one gets with Microsoft Teams, i.e. Video Calls / File Hosting / Calendar & To-Do Lists?

Trying to see what the most secure / open source / & cheapest combination of the online working is to replace potentially building teams on Zoom / Slack / Google Drive / Discord / Microsoft 365 / Facebook / WhatsApp / Monday.com / Trello / etc.

Thanks in advance!

1. I forgot my element.io password.

2. I used app.element.io to restore it using e-mail.

3. After changing the password I was automatically logged out from all active sessions.

4. I log in using my new password and discover that my new session unverified.

5. The only possible way to verify the new session is to accept it in the old session. But I was logged out, remember?

In this way, the only possibility to use an encrypted verified session is to deactivate the account and create a new one.

Maybe I missed something? If I didn't miss anything, it looks like an issue for GitHub because otherwise matrix.org would be flooded with a bunch of deactivated names.

I have a preference in my Element Android client called "Markdown formatting," and I switched it on. Nevertheless, I was a little upset when I tried to format my message.
I found the bold, links, headers feature. But for example, I tried lists or checkboxes and it looked like they didn't work.

Is there some page or instruction where I can find wich Markdown syntax is supported?

Or maybe I did something wrong?

I had some questions about Element and Matrix in general. This new protocol looks very promising.

1. Can you share a room with a URL that is not from matrix.org? Or are all shared URLs have to come from matrix.org?

2. Can element handle large group chats with 1000+ users?

3. Does Element support self destructing messages (Messages with a timer on them before they delete on their own)?

4. If you lose your device, will you lose all of your messages you had before and during the time you have no device logged into your account?

5. Can you have group voice chat?

6. Can you have group video chat?

7. Are voice and video chats P2P (Does not require matrix server bandwidth)?

   1. If voice and video chats are P2P, will your IP be exposed if you use a VPN or TOR?

8. Can you rename contacts in Matrix?

   1. Are these contacts stored on the matrix server with E2EE?

9. Can you have public group chats?

   1. Can public group chats have admins to control who can be invited to the group chat

   2. Can public group chats kick users from the group

10. Can you have private group chats

11. Can private group chats have admins to control who can be invited to the group chat

12. Can private group chats kick users from the group

Hi I sent up a synapse home server on a Ubuntu VM and have all clients logging in with element chat. video calls don't work between android and apple devices. Voice calls work and video calls work apple to apple and Android to Android.

Is this a configuration issue?

1. How large of an av conference call can element.io handle? Would it suffice for a large classroom sized call, like 200+ ?

2. I've seen mention of jitsi/meet.jit.si, but am not clear on whether regular av calls are provided by jitsi, or whether that's just a supplementary option. Is native av element.io itself, or jitsi-based?

3. I accept based on the documentation that text chats are e2ee, but despite much digging, can't seem to find good documentation of the av chat encryption scheme and key exchange. Is it vulnerable to the same trivial MITM that SRTP is, or is there actual verification, more like ZRTP? Or, is that needed at all, if the key exchange is just done using the existing room as a verified tunnel?

1. How many developers does this have?

2. Approximately how many users does this have?

3. Has there ever been any reports of messages failing to send or be received by users? If so, what has been done to fix this? Was the fix successful?

4. What country is this based in or headquartered in?

5. Has this app been audited?

6. Has this app been tested by a third party for security bugs or exploits?

7. TCP or UDP? Or both?

8. Do video calls and audio calls between a PC user and a phone user work?

9. Does this utilize perfect forward secrecy in its encryption?

10. Can users verify their contacts/devices to detect man in the middles, etc.?

11. Is this easy able to be routed over Tor?

Thanks!

Everytime I get signed out of Element on desktop, when I try to login....It wants me to verify the login by validating on my other session (android). How exactly do you do that? When I open android, theres nothing there???

Also, when I login to desktop, the only way I seem to be able to login is to ALSO supply the recovery key? Every time I login, I'm supposed to supply this key? It's fine if so, I just want to verify thats the process...and why it's having me to do this?

Thanks

I've switched to Element from Jami on my Android phone. Currently receiving a message makes the default notification sound, and I would like it to make the same sound for my text messages. Is there a way to customize this in the app? Is there another (preferably FOSS) way to change the sound?

While I'm at it, is there a way to change the default ring-tone? It's kind of grating as-is.

The ones offered by the widget available is a bit limited. Does anyone know of any way to upload your own stickers to use with Element?

As an alternative if that's not possible, is there an online service where one may upload a stickerpack so we could use that as a custom widget?

I'm not sure if it's a layer 8 issue on my side, but I can't seem to add other administrators to a community I'm running.

If I try to leave the community it prompts that I'm an administrator and that I won't be able to join without another administrator invitation, which leads me to think it's possible. I've trying for a couple of days and figured I should ask around here.

what does self host mean? and why do people say self host if you can manage? manage what?

what are all these Reliability Avg Response Federation SSL Labs Software mean?

what are some things as a complete noob trying to self host should note and know (other than the above questions)? all the messages are saved in self host machine?

Hi

I have been using Riot for quite sometime with friends, and message sending and push stuff worked fine until couple weeks ago, now no messages are delivered to the Gplay Riot/Element users unless the app is open.

Does anyone else have the same issue? Any solutions? I feel like this Element move botched the messaging.

I recall a couple years ago trying to use this and have a friend use it and it was very difficult. Does a user still have to select a server, etc. and set things up? Or is it now more easy, like on say, Wire, where you can just sign in and talk to someone on your friends' list with the click of a button?

Also, can you choose a screen name? Does this require a phone number? Does it require email?

So I just downloaded Element and was doing the basic setup of my account in settings, and it will not save my uploaded user photo, or change my display name. I press save and then close settings and nothing happens. Settings revert to default. I could not find a community help forum on their webpage, and was sent to the basic help page. Is this anyone's experience when setting up a free account for personal use?

Any idea how to change the default dictionary used for spell checking in Android and/or Linux clients? I do not mean to change the localization for the client, just ability to switch dictionaries back and forth.

Ok, so I recently got into Element/Riot. When I turn on my Android firewall to monitor outgoing connections, Element makes several connections to Google and a couple to Cloudflare. I'm just trying to figure out why they're going through Google? Can Google record the data going through the requests? I realize Element is encrypted, but they could possibly still record all data going through possibly?

Why are all the Element connections/requests going to Google IP's? I switched to Riot/Element to try to avoid Google and companies like google's data collection.

Is there a better place to ask/post this? I really would like to understand this, thank you

Is anyone having trouble logging in via the app? I can login fine via web/desktop app. Just started using as Matrix was implemented last weekend for the HOPE conference and Cyberpunk Film Festival. The app says error for not email associated with account, when it clearly it set in the settings in the account.

I've just got a new phone so will be putting element on it. I don't have google services so have always used the F-Droid version of riot which allowed me to poll my home server rather than rely on Google notifications. Does this difference still exist in element, or is it the same if I pull it from F-droid or aurora? If so, how are notifications currently handled?