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Riot is now Element

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550 points J_tt | 1 comments | 15 Jul 20 07:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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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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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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1. 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.