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I have to say "Element X" is a very unfortunate name choice ...
I think it's supposed to become just normal element when it gets feature parity with current element
It is just a codename, Element X is going to be just Element once it replace the old one.
Jesus just go back to calling it Riot.IM the name keeps getting stupider and more corporate.
Matrix has had a bit of trouble penetrating the enterprise market, which is where the real money is. Hence the corporate-speak rename.
I mean, they haven't had that much trouble. Last I checked they had portions of the French and German governments using Matrix as a secure messenger. (To be fair, those both came after the rename.)
Their main competitor in the open-source, self-hosted space is Mattermost, which has a much more business-oriented solution, so there's that as well.
That seems more like a direct competitor to Slack and MS Team to me rather than general communication. Matrix is a facinating protocol that keeps pushing the limits of federated communication but it always sucked as replacment for those and unless someone invests huge amounts of money in a completely new client I don't see taht changing any time soon tbh.
And XMPP, used by the German police and NATO
In the meantime the French dropped them
Riot games forced them to change the name.
Calm down, it's not a rename, it's a name for the preview client only. Temporary.
I wanted to try Element X but apparently my self hosted server is not compatible.
Ah there is a solution for it https://github.com/matrix-org/sliding-sync I guess I could try to install it.
Yeah I was able to install sliding-sync on Dendrite without issues. A bit surprising that I didn't see any guides made for it yet.
Did you find docs? I did a cursory glance around late last week and ended up just shrugging assuming that's what I got for using Dendrite (positive)
Edit: Turns out, when running sliding-sync you really only need to patch the
.well-known/matrix/clientconfigurationThere was a how-to video linked in one of the articles.
Yeah, it sounds like it's sponsored by Elon Musk.