syphon

Fluffychat is mentioned a lot here as a good UI/UX alternative to Element. Just wanted to bring up another that I'm working on called Syphon. It's not at the stage where it can compete with Fluffychat in terms of spec parity or maturity, but I think it's worth discussing as an effort. https://syphon.org https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon Like I said, it's still very much in Alpha and needs quite a bit of work, but the UX flows and design have been well received by others. Though there is an opinionated default UX and design paradigm, there is a focus is to make everything customizable and the theming options are growing over every release. The goal is to eventually find a sweet spot between Discord and Signal and bridge the gap to Matrix between those communities. I have a demanding day job and other obligations that keep me busy, but I

Location: Atlanta, GA (Soon Tampa, FL) Remote: Only Willing to relocate: Only after 16 months (for the right company) Technologies: Flutter, React/React Native, Vue, Node/Apollo/GraphQL, PostgresQL Résumé/CV: https://ere.io/resume.pdf Email: hackernews @ ere.io ========= I'm a senior full stack software engineer that's filled many roles. At SmartPath (YC S16), I built their mobile app from scratch using React Native, GraphQL, Node and Postgres. Additionally, I took the lead as architect on all tech related products, including a custom CRM and multiple client facing apps. During my free-time, I created an open source matrix client called Syphon (https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon). I value privacy and freedom in software, and hope to find a company where these ideals will apply. I could best help an early-stage team building o

Here's another I haven't tried it but it looks slick https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon

While I think the core focus of Beeper as a cross platform messenger is great, the bigger positive here in my opinion is a matrix client with good UX and design. The user experience portrayed here is much more in line with what is required to get people less technical on one decentralized/federated network, such as matrix. I’m currently working towards the same effort, in a very different stage of development, in that regard with https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon. Props to Eric, Tulir, and the team for making such a good looking client!

If you dislike the new name, branding, or user experience, instead of arguing over why or why not it is a good decision, I'd encourage you to get yourself involved and be that change. Before the rebrand, or even any talk user experience and design from Element (Riot), I didn't want to wait and started working on a privacy centric matrix client that focused on branding and user experience. I managed to get E2EE working by myself within a month using the Matrix provided encryption library. https://syphon.org https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon For the record, I don't think Element is a bad name. Regardless of the name itself, this is a massive leap forward for their branding. The user experience seems to have been cleaned up dramatically in the new versions of their iOS and Android apps.

I've built a not for profit multi-platform capable matrix chat client that is now in open alpha called Syphon (https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon) to largely address the issue of proprietary chat clients. Private, secure communication (with a decent brand and ui) should be accessible to everyone by now. Signal does a great job of filling the void for now but if they fail or are blocked by a country or community, the application interface itself is not a protocol to which people could easily pivot to the “gmail” of Signal. I’m hoping that Riot’s upcoming rebrand will mark the start of this transition. We needed centralized efforts to spread usage of matrix, or even a similarly accessible protocol, but make it easy for those to create or maintain their own connection to that network. If all else fails, I guess we’ll have Syphon.