Though of course the hope is no one will feel the need to fork it.) (Plus, as Hodgson points out, anyone less than happy with the direction of travel can of course fork the platform and go their own way, being as Element is an open source company. So the tl dr is that current Gitter users should have plenty of reasons to be cheerful about the acquisition. ![]() Effectively, Gitter will have become a Matrix client,” Element adds. DMing them, and (possibly) joining arbitrary Matrix rooms. “Gitter users will also be able to talk to other users elsewhere in the open Matrix network - e.g. “ We’re going to build out native Matrix connectivity - running a dedicated Matrix homeserver on gitter.im with a new bridge direct into the heart of Gitter letting all Gitter rooms be available to Matrix directly as (say) #angular_angular:gitter.im, and bridging all the historical conversations into Matrix via MSC2716 or similar,” it writes. The migration will also mean Element will be replacing the current “creaky” matrix-appservice-gitter bridge. Then, once Gitter migrates to Element, it’ll get access to “all the goodies” the combination brings - including end-to-end encryption reactions VoIP and conferencing widgets all the alternative clients, bots, bridges and servers the full open standard Matrix API and the ability to fully participate in that decentralized network…Īnother enticing promise is “c onstantly improving native iOS & Android clients” - which the Element team notes is a welcome alternative to Gitter’s natives ones, given they’re already being deprecated. This is because the pledge is feature parity first (so, yes, that means Element will be gaining a bunch of Gitter features such as threads and instant live room peeking, to name two). ![]() Furthermore, the pitch to the Gitter community is that, down the line, there will be plenty to gain from the migration/eventual assimilation as a “Gitter-customized version of Element” running on Matrix. In a blog post discussing the acquisition, the top-line message from Element CEO and Matrix co-founder, Matthew Hodgson, is that nothing will change in the short term. But Element is going out of its way to reassure Gitter users they’ll feel properly at home on Matrix. ![]() The acquisition means Gitter’s community of some 1.7M users will be migrating to Matrix, the underlying decentralized comms protocol also made by Element - assuming they stick around for the ride with the new owner, of course. ![]() Some interesting news for lovers of open, decentralized communications tech: Element, the company behind the eponymous Matrix-based Slack competitor (formerly known as Riot) has acquired developer-focused chat platform, Gitter, from dev services giant GitLab, which picked it up back in 2017.
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