To summarise all this, we’re really excited to see the global developer community converging onto the Matrix open network! The exercise will definitely be a landmark case study of how to bring an existing successful chat app into the Matrix network - we’re looking forward to more of these in order to bring an even more powerful Matrix network to Element’s users and customers. The teamĪnd last but not least, the Gitter dev team will be employed by Element and receive a very warm welcome! The data is physically not going to move anywhere: only the name at the top of the paper will change. For those who stay along for the ride, their data will now be under the responsibility of Element (via the New Vector Limited legal entity). In terms of data processing, current Gitter users will shortly receive a communication about the change of data controller and will have the ability to opt out of the migration if they wish. These enhancements will of course benefit everyone using either Element or Gitter. Then, and only then, the Gitter app will be replaced by a Gitter-specific version of Element in order to focus our efforts on building one single, amazing Matrix app (rather than supporting two). In the longer term, the idea is to bring to Element all the niceties of Gitter (instant live room peeking, curated room directory, KaTeX support.) and merge them with the ones from Matrix (E2E encryption, reactions, VoIP, the open standard APIs…) in a single Element app. The bridge will prove particularly useful for mobile users, as the native Gitter mobile apps have been deprecated already: the community will soon be able to use the Element mobile apps instead!.We will focus on building a much better Gitter to Matrix bridge so the Gitter community can seamlessly use either Gitter or Element, and so the Matrix community can seamlessly participate in Gitter chatrooms.The Gitter web app stays exactly as it is in the short term.Matthew goes into great detail about the transition from the Gitter app perspective in the Matrix blog, but the TL DR: is: In practice, there are a few layers to this. What does ‘concrete’ mean? In short, Element has acquired Gitter from GitLab. So you can imagine our delight when we got the opportunity to eventually support the Gitter community properly by making it a concrete part of the Matrix network! And that’s why the Gitter to Matrix bridge was one of the first we built, looking to bring all these platforms together into Matrix, for our community to be able to collaborate effectively. We met the Gitter team six years ago at TechCrunch Disrupt, and always had a soft spot for the app the polish, some of the features we’re still yet to land in Element (like threading), the deep integration with GitHub and now GitLab… All of this definitely makes Gitter a best-of-breed communication app for developers. So when GitLab proposed that Gitter, the leading developer-focused chat platform, could be stronger as part of the Matrix network, we knew we couldn’t miss the chance! When we created Element we defined one of its primary goals as supporting and growing the Matrix ecosystem.
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