I’m yet to try this out but the biggest problem with their old communities feature was that it was essentially just tags for normal group chats. You had to use the normal group creation UI and...
I’m yet to try this out but the biggest problem with their old communities feature was that it was essentially just tags for normal group chats. You had to use the normal group creation UI and then you go in to the community and add groups in.
This UI is terrible. It didn’t feel like a community at all.
Can’t wait to try out this new change though and see how they did.
In my mind, if i were to oversimplify it, I'd say that Spaces is almost like folders and sub-folders in a desktop email client...which wouldn't be a bad thing, at least for me! Is my way of...
In my mind, if i were to oversimplify it, I'd say that Spaces is almost like folders and sub-folders in a desktop email client...which wouldn't be a bad thing, at least for me! Is my way of thinking (email client folders) here wrong? Is there a different paradigm that someone could point to which could help clarify Spaces??
Sort of! From the user side, spaces are just a collection of rooms - which can either be a public or private collection (sort of like a Discord server) or a personal collection (more analogous to...
Sort of! From the user side, spaces are just a collection of rooms - which can either be a public or private collection (sort of like a Discord server) or a personal collection (more analogous to a folder).
But the folders analogy is really quite accurate from a technical side of things - spaces are rooms that contain a list of other rooms. The Matrix developers give a brief overview of applications this opens up in their corresponding blog post.
I’m yet to try this out but the biggest problem with their old communities feature was that it was essentially just tags for normal group chats. You had to use the normal group creation UI and then you go in to the community and add groups in.
This UI is terrible. It didn’t feel like a community at all.
Can’t wait to try out this new change though and see how they did.
In my mind, if i were to oversimplify it, I'd say that Spaces is almost like folders and sub-folders in a desktop email client...which wouldn't be a bad thing, at least for me! Is my way of thinking (email client folders) here wrong? Is there a different paradigm that someone could point to which could help clarify Spaces??
Sort of! From the user side, spaces are just a collection of rooms - which can either be a public or private collection (sort of like a Discord server) or a personal collection (more analogous to a folder).
But the folders analogy is really quite accurate from a technical side of things - spaces are rooms that contain a list of other rooms. The Matrix developers give a brief overview of applications this opens up in their corresponding blog post.
Thanks @petrichor! And, that link to the matrix.org side of the house really helped too! 😊👍