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Riot is now Element

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550 points J_tt | 9 comments | 15 Jul 20 07:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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dividedbyzero ◴[15 Jul 20 07:49 UTC] No.23842409[source]▶
That's been long overdue and will hopefully help Matrix make inroads into more conservative organizations; I believe the tech is really promising. It's a definite liability, trying to introduce people to Matrix, when the de-facto default client's name evokes all kinds of unhelpful associations – it doesn't sound like work at all and it does sound like gamers, toys, apparently even like a far-left political organisation. Element should be fine for everyone.
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1. starfallg ◴[15 Jul 20 09:08 UTC] No.23842846[source]▶
Does the name really inhibit adoption in a corporate environment that much, or is it just an excuse people put down in questionnaires?

Plenty of popular tools with questionable names. Splunk and slack comes to mind.

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2. Barrin92 ◴[15 Jul 20 09:16 UTC] No.23842887[source]▶
purely anecdotal but I've seen it twice that a piece of software was rejected because of a weird name.

Probably doesn't happen often, but there's people when they have a few alternatives they'll just throw the strange sounding one out first.

3. sanqui ◴[15 Jul 20 09:21 UTC] No.23842910[source]▶
I'd think I'm far from the only one who finds CockroachDB simply repulsive merely for its name.
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4. sam_goody ◴[15 Jul 20 09:25 UTC] No.23842938[source]▶
OT, but I refer to it as RoachDB and that helps a lot.

Roach could be a last name, or a type of chocolate...

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5. szquadri ◴[15 Jul 20 09:42 UTC] No.23843042[source]▶
I can vouch that I avoided deploying it in corp environments due to the questionable name. "Element" is fine and is generic just like "Matrix". So name really does matter (specially in formal/corporate environments).
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6. vultour ◴[15 Jul 20 09:48 UTC] No.23843085{3}[source]▶
Roach is often used as a synonym for cockroach
7. shock ◴[15 Jul 20 10:08 UTC] No.23843209[source]▶
Your comment doesn't mean much if your company is on Slack. The "Slack" name can present issues for other people just like "Riot" has presented for you.
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8. lozf ◴[15 Jul 20 11:29 UTC] No.23843733{3}[source]▶
Yes, even in 2016 I had non-techies think that an IM chat designed for the workplace called "Slack" was some sort of joke.
9. midasz ◴[15 Jul 20 11:46 UTC] No.23843850{3}[source]▶
Or a basically finished joint