Hey. Im thinking about creating matrix client based on telegram. I think their UI/UX is one of the best among messengers. Plus their android app is open source.

I have to take couple of things in consideration, like: licensing, technical details and some more. Its very possible from the technical perspective and pretty unclear from the licensing/legal perspective (since they could change license any moment or even go private).

In this post i would mostly like to know if open source community even wants anything related to telegram. Not everyone likes it. The project would target mainly open source community and will be public as well.

So the questions: Do you think we would want it? And would you personally try it?

Thank you <3

  • majestic@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    12 days ago

    Lets see if there is more ppl interested in that feature. Personally i dont like telegram as a product, but like their mobile UI/UX

    Edit: It is feasible, but would require more work and would make codebase even more unintuitive

    • BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de
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      12 days ago

      I think it could be another gateway for more people to start using matrix, because they don’t need to bother with two apps and wouldn’t need to learn a new UI for matrix.

      But maybe also not since it would require another app install anyway.

      I guess its not really worth it if maintainance becomes too complicated.