| ▲ | yaky 2 days ago |
| This sounds great for large and corporate servers, but a pain for small self-hosted ones. More configuration and external dependencies. Plus additional confusion for non-techy users on those smaller servers. |
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| ▲ | jchw 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| I don't think this will be required for other servers any time soon, if ever. Clients are going to have to support logging in the oldschool way indefinitely, especially since most Matrix servers are basically unmaintained. |
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| ▲ | t3chguy 2 days ago | parent [-] | | You say that, but Element X (Android & iOS) already lacks full support for the oldschool way. It only supports certain flows therein AIUI. | | |
| ▲ | jchw 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, I realize that, but that's exactly why it's Element X and not Element. Element was actually planning on dropping support for older servers, but for ecosystem reasons they had to can that indefinitely. I don't think Element will become Element X anytime soon with the ecosystem in such bad shape. | | |
| ▲ | yaky 38 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Several years ago, Riot.im messenger had a branch called RiotX with some additional features. Then RiotX (or its codebase) became the first version of Element, while the original Riot.im stopped being supported. And this was when Synapse was the only server option and it was a hog for memory. |
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