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by usbfingers 1786 days ago
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 spend nearly all my free time and every vacation in the last year working on this project. We're constantly looking for other contributors and there's several other ways to help including donations. Feel free to join the official room for updates to track progress and please feel free to reach out with feedback!

https://matrix.to/#/#syphon:matrix.org

Additionally, I just merged Multi-account support this week and it will be in the next release. Not sure of any other Matrix client that has this feature, so there's some unique features that we're focusing on to set it apart.

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> Additionally, I just merged Multi-account support this week and it will be in the next release. Not sure of any other Matrix client that has this feature

Mirage has this but it's the only one i know of. it also didnt seem to work with cross device signing last i tried it.

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/mirage

Very glad there's other clients supporting this. Thanks for the heads up!

I was under the impression some of the desktop clients had it in the form of swapping CLI flags on start, but it seems to support switching under the settings menu in the latest release. Much like email, many people will have more than one user they'd like to swap between so very glad to see other clients adding this feature with user friendly UX.

Yea, element has support for multiple profiles but you have to run multiple clients to use multiple accounts. It;s a bit like firefox profiles and it works but I don't really count it as multiple account support.
Quaternion and Neochat have multi-account support as well.
nice, i tried quaternion a long time ago so i wasn't aware it had it now. i haven't tried neochat before even though i use kde. i'll give it a shot and see how well it works
It would be nice when you're advertising on your UX, to have a screenshot of your application on the website.