[siraben]

This is great news. I've used Gitter for communication in some open source projects, and have always found certain things painful. My favorite points from the article are;

- Improving iOS and Android apps. At least in the iOS case, the experience is abysmal (the web interface is similarly so)

- Replacement of the matrix-appservice-gitter bridge. I've used the Matrix <-> Gitter bridge for some time now but there's much left to be desired, such as proper edit and deletion of messages to and from the services.

Overall, it's great to see less future fragmentation in the chat systems developers use, reminds me of the XKCD comic[0] and a modification showing the matrix.org bridges[1]

[0] https://xkcd.com/1810/

[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*vILzcbWOi7e4RtK0

[dschuessler]

Wow. It really needed this response to the xkcd comic for the vision of Matrix to click with me. Matrix just went from "just another messenger who happens to have bridges to others" to "possibly the only communication software you’ll ever need" in my mind.

Although I was well aware of Matrix for years, that particular intention behind it somehow never got through to me.

[ncmncm]

Funny that with all the circles, Discord isn't there.

Or Gitter.