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
Telegrams UX is excellent.
Bringing some of that to matrix would be neat.
it would probably be easier to take an existing matrix client implementation and make it look like telegram.
i don’t think the ui will be much of a problem, the backend stuff: communication with the server, enryption, device validation will probably be the most complicated to implement.
But if you do it, I’d probably try it. The existing matrix clients are all not very good.
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.
Please! I think that all mobile matrix clients are either bad or just somewhat good with many caveats. For me, Element X develops at a glacial pace and it seems the philosophy is to just make a minimal client and nothing more. FluffyChat is too opinionated and rough everywhere for me. Beeper is by far the best client however you’re limited to a beeper account.
We really need more clients that aren’t just Element or trying to reinvent the wheel.
