Matrix is like a bright teenager: they are full of promise and to be encouraged at every opportunity, but they also need to cut their hair and stop wearing CND T-shirts before they can be taken seriously.
(I’d add here that I’m a big fan and user of matrix, while being aware of its limitations as a marketed product.)
Matrix have shipped some high profile products to clients like national governments, but there’s little hope for traction with the general public when the riot.im signup process is so unpolished, and when the most common entry point into the Matrix system brands itself with a name other than Matrix.
Signal uses the signal website and signal app for iOS and signal app for desktop and refers to the signal protocol in all it’s literature. Matrix could take a leaf out of their book!
(Perhaps licensing the trademark would be a good start?: Riot -> Matrix Riot, Synapse -> Matrix Synapse, and move the riot.im functions into a domain that has matrix in it?)
(I’d add here that I’m a big fan and user of matrix, while being aware of its limitations as a marketed product.)
Matrix have shipped some high profile products to clients like national governments, but there’s little hope for traction with the general public when the riot.im signup process is so unpolished, and when the most common entry point into the Matrix system brands itself with a name other than Matrix.
Signal uses the signal website and signal app for iOS and signal app for desktop and refers to the signal protocol in all it’s literature. Matrix could take a leaf out of their book!
(Perhaps licensing the trademark would be a good start?: Riot -> Matrix Riot, Synapse -> Matrix Synapse, and move the riot.im functions into a domain that has matrix in it?)