Highlights include Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC (industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins (lazy-loading room state when your server joins a room).
I have to say “Element X” is a very unfortunate name choice …
It is just a codename, Element X is going to be just Element once it replace the old one.
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I think it’s supposed to become just normal element when it gets feature parity with current element
Yeah, it sounds like it’s sponsored by Elon Musk.
Jesus just go back to calling it Riot.IM the name keeps getting stupider and more corporate.
Calm down, it’s not a rename, it’s a name for the preview client only. Temporary.
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.)
In the meantime the French dropped them
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.
And XMPP, used by the German police and NATO
Riot games forced them to change the name.
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/client
configuration