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Felix Urbasik

@jon It still bothers me that @matrix did not adopt this scheme.

11 Jul 2023 at 15:39 | Wall-to-wall | Open on ma.fellr.net
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Luna :circleA:

@fell @jon Hot take but I like how Matrix uses colons, it distinguishes the types of software at a glance, so you never have to specify which one is the chat app and which one is the social media

11 Jul 2023 at 17:21 | Open on anarchy.center
irina 🌷🐇

@luna i like "/", because its like "on" if you say ⅞ as "7 on 8". @user/example.site

but the ship has totally sailed so it'll probably be @...@... forever

11 Jul 2023 at 17:37 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Luna :circleA:

@irina Considering the colon is sometimes used as a division symbol, that may be what Matrix was going for?

11 Jul 2023 at 19:27 | Open on anarchy.center
kinyutaka

@irina @luna

I always think of the fraction as "over", like "7 over 8"

But there was a bunch of hacking attacks that used / as a way to get information.

11 Jul 2023 at 20:03 | Open on mstdn.social
Brittany Wilson

@irina @luna This looks much better than the two ampersands though. The two ampersands looks really bad and that’s been hard for me to get past!!

12 Jul 2023 at 0:50 | Open on masto.ai
hauleth 🇵🇱❤️🇺🇦

@irina @luna `@` is `at`, so it is `user at example.site`. IMHO the `@` at the beginning is more problematic.

12 Jul 2023 at 9:07 | Open on fosstodon.org
Andrew

@irina @luna the other problem with / is that it's precisely opposite to how / is used in URLs — as in example.site/user

12 Jul 2023 at 11:47 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Anyarchiste 😸

@luna @fell @jon I like the colons more because it differentiates between pseudonym and server name

11 Jul 2023 at 20:27 | Open on is.nota.live
The Matrix.org Foundation

@fell @jon I /think/ that @user@domain wasn't a thing when we created Matrix in 2014. the double at looks ugly; colon is prettier :P

12 Jul 2023 at 8:56 | Open on mastodon.matrix.org
Felix Urbasik

@matrix @jon That's what I call an official answer! Fair enough, a lot of people seem to pefer the colon.

12 Jul 2023 at 10:10 | Open on ma.fellr.net
The Matrix.org Foundation

@fell @jon the best thing is you can pronounce it "at matthew colon matrix.org" and then abbreviate 'colon' to 'on', so it becomes "at matthew on matrix.org". Whereas "at matthew at matrix.org" just sounds confusing ;P

12 Jul 2023 at 13:47 | Open on mastodon.matrix.org
Felix Urbasik

@matrix @jon I mean, in my opinion "matthew at matrix.org" like #XMPP would've been perfectly fine. But whatever works.

12 Jul 2023 at 14:10 | Open on ma.fellr.net
jabberati

@fell @matrix @jon The same guys who unnecessarily reinvent XMPP also unnecessarily reinvent URIs? No way!

12 Jul 2023 at 14:16 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
Dan
hubzillar
@Matrix.org
Semantics from matriix.
The client software is s...
Poor functionality on web browsers, no compliance with accessibility standards, gratuiious ecmascript. Do not ask people in bandwidth expensive places to download s... 50, 100, etc. software (sorry, b... "apps"). Make your service work on basic web browsers.

End of rant.
@Matrix.org
Semantics from matriix.
The client software is s...
Poor functionality on web browsers, no compliance with accessibility standards, gratuiious ecmascript. Do not ask people in bandwidth expensive places to download s... 50, 100, etc. software (sorry, b... "apps"). Make your service work on basic web browsers.
12 Jul 2023 at 18:02 | Open on tiksi.net
Râu Cao ⚡

@matrix @fell @jon The double @ is superfluous. You can use normal user@domain addresses on fedi, too.

The idea that those didn't exist in 2014 is ludicrous. E-Mail being the obvious example. XMPP another one.

12 Jul 2023 at 14:50 | Open on kosmos.social
Tobskep
@matrix @fell @jon true, i wonder why they don't just use @user:domain like everyone else
13 Jul 2023 at 5:37 | Open on castletown.tobskep.com
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