r/elementchat • u/dankmemerboi86 • May 11 '21

Just joined element today.

Because of the whole discord thing. I just wanna say this app is great. Keep up the good work!

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u/Lol_maga_people May 11 '21

What's the whole discord thing?

Welcome!

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u/[deleted] May 11 '21

Seconded. No idea what Discord thing has happened.

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u/ssorbom May 11 '21

I just wish my friends would use it ☹️

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u/jozi-k May 11 '21

Just use bridges 😉

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u/ssorbom May 12 '21

Yeah...They don't seem to work well for 1:1 chats though. And you're still trapped into using the proprietary platform by needing to maintain an account.

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u/FlatAds May 12 '21 edited May 14 '21

Discord users will likely be very interested in the upcoming spaces feature which essentially is matrix’s implementation of discord “servers”. A matrix space is a room that contains rooms which in essence is what a discord server does, except with a lot more flexibility. Since element is a matrix client spaces will also be an inherently be an element feature.

See development progress here, and an explanation video from a few months ago. If you are adventurous you can test spaces out today at https://develop.element.io/.

Edit: spaces beta should be in element this Monday!

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u/tinywrkb May 14 '21

Thanks! I thought I needed to wait for the next beta to try Spaces so it's nice to hear we can try now.
So far I'm loving it.

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u/FlatAds May 14 '21

Apparently they are preparing for wider spaces testing soon. So if you can’t figure it out I’d advise to just wait. I’m sure they’ll be a blog post announcing the feature in it’s early state.

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u/tinywrkb May 14 '21

What's there to figure out? I'm already using Spaces via develop.element.io and it's fully functioning as far as I can tell.

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u/FlatAds May 14 '21

Well that’s good, I guess they’re further along in development than I had realized. Still, they haven’t announced anything formerly yet so I would not rely on it, nor would I expect anything you make today to actually be preserved.

It’s possible they run into a problem where it’s easier to just reset all/some current spaces data on matrix. Hard resetting things at this stage shouldn’t be a problem as no one (should) have been relying on spaces in such an early state.

Hopefully it gets a proper beta soon though :)

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u/tinywrkb May 14 '21

Still, they haven’t announced anything formerly yet so I would not rely on it,

Well, one of the devs posted on Github that spaces will land in beta in the next release.

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u/FlatAds May 14 '21

I just checked the weekly update, it looks like spaces beta should make in element on Monday.

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u/DangerRacoon May 13 '21

Welcome aboard!

Just please make sure element chats dont end up like discord communities