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
EDIT: :V If you think its bad idea, please tell me. I see much of positive response (and i feel pretty happy about it), but i have to be real, so if you think im wrong or you see any problems, please speak up :)
EDIT#2: Work has been started :P
I am not sure how feasible it is to do, but the coolest would be if both Telegram and Matrix could be used from the same app with the original Telegram UX/UI.
In the sense that after installing the app you can choose whether to log into a matrix server or a Telegram account. And then you could also add more accounts of either service later, as you already can add multiple Telegram accounts in the Telegram app now.
Probably quite a complex task to make an app like that but it would be cool.
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
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.
It could. Im not planning on syncing with upstream. So if there would be any important telegram fix of official client, i would need to implement it manually or copy-paste code.
Also, i want full rebrand and change styling of many UI elements. My final goal is to make it original product
The problem with telegram is the recent revelations that there is little to no backend privacy. So I’m not totally sure who your userbase might be?
Open source afficionados who also don’t mind random cops trolling through their contacts and messages? Seems like a rather small overlap.
Or maybe I’ve misunderstood the recent media attention that telegram has gotten or your proposal.
I use element to try out matrix, I haven’t used telegram. But I’d try it a new client.
Deltachat have same interface like TG. They can help you.
From what I understand, Matrix is a pretty hard service to write clients for because they’re constantly updating the server architecture and so clients end up very much behind very fast.
