I would like to discuss about questions related to #matrix.org
, and discussing about a new related Tag for SuperUser.
What is Matrix.org
The Matrix.org is an Open Source, decentralized, distributed, chat protocol to have private and group conversations. It supports easy interconnection to IRC, and server-side applications to bridge Matrix.org users to Telegram, Slack and so on.
Matrix also supports "Application Services".
https://www.matrix.org/docs/guides/application-services
Adoption
Matrix.org has a lot of official and not-official Open Source chat clients. The most famous is probably Element.io, available on Android (also from F-Droid), iOS, and Linux desktop (also via snap) and also as web application.
It's interesting that in 2020 they received 5 million dollars of donations just from Automattic (company behind WordPress).
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/welcoming-automattic-to-matrix
Proposed description for the tag
Matrix.org is an open, decentralized, distributed protocol. In-topic questions include: usage and fix on desktop clients, or "Matrix Application Services". Off-topic questions include: specific web client (ask in WebApps); programming over this protocol (ask in StackOverflow); server-side errors on a Matrix server (ask in ServerFault); using or fixing a Matrix Android app (ask in Android).
Proposed in-topic considerations on Stack Exchange
The WebApps network can host in-topic questions related to a very specific web-app of the Matrix protocol, like https://app.element.io/. For this case I would suggest to propose in that network a new tag #element.io
(not to be discussed there).
The StackOverflow network can host in-topic questions about software programming related to implementations of a Matrix.org client or something like that. For this case I would suggest to propose in that network a new tag #matrix.org
(not to be discussed there).
The ServerFault network can host in-topic questions about how to fix server-side errors in business environments related to hosting a Matrix node. For this case I would suggest to propose in that network a new tag #matrix.org
(not to be discussed there).
The Android network can host in-topic questions about how to use or fix a particular app on your Android device related to the Matrix protocol. For this case I would suggest to propose in that network a new tag #matrix.org
(not to be discussed there).
What do you think about?