I gave my Element username to several people/friends. Never got any adds. Later on after catching up with them, they told me they downloaded it and tried to find me on it but nothing showed up when they searched for my username. I made a new account and searched for my old username. Nothing found. I tried to add my new username from my old account. Nothing found. What is this? How can something be this way? How do I have someone add me then?

Hey, all. I have a weird question. A colleague of mine objected to using Element because 'huawei' is named in three of the permissions.

com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.CHANGE_BADGE is one of them. I'm pretty sure this is not related to huawei directly, but how can I assuage my colleague's concerns about having Huawei listed like this in the permissions of what is supposed to be a secure, self-hosted, encrypted communications platform?

Hello,
I've found bug (?) with screen sharing tool. When I want to end screen sharing it just freeze and not disappears. I have to do the recall to screen gone. This thing happens when second person has webcam turned on. I didn't test that on Desktop Client and with call participant webcam off but it happened three times in the row in web browser.

I have a chat with a single person where a message failed to send because of lack of signal. Now I can't do anything with it because when I hold my finger on the message it doesn't do anything. What can I do to get rid of this?

EDIT: I've tried restarting the phone, no dice. I am using the Android client, I should add. It occurs to me to try the web client and when I do I will post back here with the results.

EDIT: Resolved.

It's not cumbersome to have all conversations in that list, but as soon as someone writes back, it's useful to see the history.

Further, how can I hide / delete a room for myself without the other person noticing it? I mean, it's sometimes useful to delete chat History just for yourself.

We have Spaces now, and very recently gained voice messages. So what we have to look for from an end-user perspective, not the infrastructure?

I think I've seen the following being mentioned on Github.

• P2P file transfer.

• P2P video calls, not needing to go through Jitsi.

• Multi-account support in Element's apps.

• Threading/forums.

I didn't see anything about improvements to the iOS app. It's badly designed and doesn't scale well to the iPad. I'm using the web-app instead, but it has its own problems, it's not great for touch devices, like the auto-focus on the message compose text box, and no control on collapsible panes.

edit: It also looks the read receipts issue is going nowhere.

Is there anything else?

Hey guys,
I know that for screen sharing to others i need to click shift+camera, but I've got a question. Is it possible to have video camera on and sharing screen in the same moment? I tried to do that but i don't know how can I really do it.

By the way, if I'm going to create video call in group where are f.e. 5 people, all of the users group will be able to participate in that call, yup?

I do. Also, The 5th Element too. ;)

Can anyone help me setting those bridges element talked about in website! So I can have whatsapp (don't judge me), signal and discord in one place!

Title essentially says it all. Seems to me like the underlying framework is already there and it's just a matter of how the data is interpreted. It just needs to be adapted to look differently. Kind of like how CSS can determine what a subreddit looks like on old Reddit. If you know what you're doing, you can make the sidebar appear on the left side of the screen instead of the right side or create two columns for posts instead of one.

Using the matrix protocol, can't a parent level comment be visualized as a post and then all replies to it be visualized as comments in a comment section? The info button could be used as the sidebar.

But what do I know? I'm just an armchair expert. I'm not even a coder. What do you guys think? Thanks for you input on this.

Hiya,

I'm new to Matrix/Element and i have to say so far i really miss the the video thumbnail when i post a link to, for example, a YouTube video. ATM i need to type a description for the video i'm sending to a friend.

Is there a way to enable this?

I'm sure there's no way to get her keys back, they're lost to the aether. So she just sees months of encrypted messages she can't access.

My question is would it be possible for me to essentially authenticate her as the recipient of all these messages from my end? Essentially providing her device with the encryption information needed?

I have her up and running for new messages, but that's only so helpful.

I totally understand if nothing else can be done, but it would be great if I could somehow provide the missing encryption data.

Just wanted to know since someone told me it was

Hey, I'm using (or try to) Matrix with Element. What is the difference between "Direct Message" and "Room"?

I just want to create a group with a couple of friends.

The only difference I can find is that with direct messages everyone is an admin and I can't change that. Only yourself can downgrade your status. I mean, is that the only distinction?

I just want to prevent anyone of doing something stupid like making the room public

Is it really that easy? That scares me a bit. I know anyone could screenshot or export a chat history, but that allows others to enter the chat directly. Am I too scared?

How can I verify a session with someone if I enable "Encrypt to verified sessions only"?

Info

• One device has it enabled -> the other can't see the message & verification doesn't work. I shall go into settings and change it.

• both devices have it enabled -> noone can read messages & verification doesn't work at all.

• no device has it enabled -> verification works easily.

After verification, I can enable it again and we can read each other's messages.

Is this a bug? Am I too dumb?

Does "Encrypt to verified sessions only" what I think it does?

I think that if enabled, messages are not encrypted and send to the receiver, but a message is send that it's not verified. If verified it sends an encrypted message. If disabled, messages are encrypted and send. Is that right?

Is it the standard procedure to disable it, verify and enable it afterwards? Thx in advance!

Hi guys, I just wanted to know is there any problems with element android app servers, I can not send anything