The cool part about using Alpine as a minimalist desktop is you can run the entire system from RAM - assuming you're running in diskless mode.
I've showed people my Alpine desktop setup _on their own laptop_ by booting from a USB. After booting, I unplug the USB, continue running the distro, and then restarting their machine as if nothing ever happened. Lots of cool factor driving motivation there, but I agree it's not as easy to use nor maintainable for most people.
Also if your workstation dies, just toggle BIOS settings - if needed - and boot on another machine. No swapping / migrating drives required. Works amazingly if you're used to running on crap / dated hardware.
I assume financially this would probably not be feasible or sustainable everywhere but I really wish malls could lean further into theme parks rather than shopping hubs
Most of them are half way there with movie theaters, arcades, etc. I recently went to one with an attached Medieval Times.
I'm curious how much filling in laser tag, rock climbing, and other in person only activities would generate turnout.
Not intended on initially being what you're looking for, but contributors and those interested often discuss privacy implications of developing software in the Off Topic chat for privacy focused project I've created.
Sort of tangent, but the fact that Block Protocol is also managing the distribution of the resulting UI components, unlike Solid which encouraged people to consume the data independently through an API, makes it more accessible.
Comment above does a good job at describing the distinction. It's more than just re-usable HTML/CSS/JS, that's just how they're making it accessible to others. There are entities associated with the HTML/CSS/JS mapped alongside the component, which is the core benefit here.
Many have tried - very recently - and seemingly stalled or failed at creating something like this with wide adoption, most notably Tim Berners-Lee with the SOLID protocol
The roadblock is always getting major tech companies to accept it as a valid means of accessing user data.
The amount of times I've heard about SOLID on NPR or other popular mainstream newscasts only to garner little to no support is astounding. Definitely take note where others have seemingly failed here because it's an uphill battle.
So many signups now involve taking a small survey that will sort you into a some cohort. Lots of times, this is required prior to even entering an email or password. Making this process easy, or having a template with predefined dynamic questions and answer flows (even if they're fake and meant to be changed) would be super helpful and solve a whole engineering effort in one fell swoop.
Tried the demo and got stuck at the Stripe payment step and hit the error "Provided API Key is wrong".
That said, this is a desperately needed product for small teams. Was considering building something like this as a SaaS for the last couple years. A small team I was apart of spent multiple sprints mulling over onboarding tweaks for our users involving all these components.
If it's not already a feature or being worked on, please consider making template Q&A flows that can plop users in a bucket. It's often asked for right before or after signup and is a relatively big lift to keep building over and over.
Note, some of that is a requirement by the Matrix protocol and is out of clients control. It's ultimately up to the server to configure different password requirements.
> Clients SHOULD enforce that the password provided is suitably complex. The password SHOULD include a lower-case letter, an upper-case letter, a number and a symbol and be at a minimum 8 characters in length. Servers MAY reject weak passwords with an error code M_WEAK_PASSWORD.
Very glad there's other clients supporting this. Thanks for the heads up!
I was under the impression some of the desktop clients had it in the form of swapping CLI flags on start, but it seems to support switching under the settings menu in the latest release. Much like email, many people will have more than one user they'd like to swap between so very glad to see other clients adding this feature with user friendly UX.
Fluffychat is mentioned a lot here as a good UI/UX alternative to Element. Just wanted to bring up another that I'm working on called Syphon. It's not at the stage where it can compete with Fluffychat in terms of spec parity or maturity, but I think it's worth discussing as an effort.
Like I said, it's still very much in Alpha and needs quite a bit of work, but the UX flows and design have been well received by others. Though there is an opinionated default UX and design paradigm, there is a focus is to make everything customizable and the theming options are growing over every release.
The goal is to eventually find a sweet spot between Discord and Signal and bridge the gap to Matrix between those communities.
I have a demanding day job and other obligations that keep me busy, but I spend nearly all my free time and every vacation in the last year working on this project. We're constantly looking for other contributors and there's several other ways to help including donations. Feel free to join the official room for updates to track progress and please feel free to reach out with feedback!
Additionally, I just merged Multi-account support this week and it will be in the next release. Not sure of any other Matrix client that has this feature, so there's some unique features that we're focusing on to set it apart.