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People have tried and you're right, there wasn't a lot of buy-in.

It didn't help that these attempts were torpedoed aggressively by Microsoft, Google et al.


By the rest of Europe? Kinda.

They always seem to have imagined themselves to sit halfway across the Atlantic instead of a few miles off the French coast.


I still remember when that happened. I was really bummed because Riot is just such a fun name. Didn't help that that particular company was the reason.

I bet you were even more bummed though.

It's interesting seeing a myth build around your reasons for the name change already, with the blog post still up. Makes me wonder though how native speakers would have felt about the name after the protests.

I'm not a native speaker, so I don't feel the connotations of the name.


As a very longtime user, I can say that the progress has been noticeable to me, especially in the last year or two.

Having had a look at Element X (Android), it actually feels to me like that responsiveness is pretty much the last thing I was missing.

Oh, and the call bug already mentioned in the thread.

I'm really happy with Element and thankful for all the work you guys put into it.


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