Howdy each person,
We’re incredibly infected to voice that Revolt is now Ingredient!
In actuality we hang simplified all our naming: Ingredient shall be the name for Original Vector (the firm at the encourage of Revolt) whereas Modular, our flagship Matrix web hosting provider, has turn into Ingredient Matrix Products and companies.
For those discovering us for the principle time: Ingredient is the flagship stable collaboration app for the decentralised Matrix dialog community. Ingredient implies that you can hang your hang stop-to-stop encrypted chat server, whereas amassed connecting to each person else within the wider Matrix community.
What’s more, RiotX is now out of beta – our next generation Matrix consumer for Android has flown the nest and spread its wings as Ingredient – replacing the venerable Revolt Android app at final!
This name commerce has been a lengthy time within the making. As we defined after we launched the rebrand just a few weeks within the past, we’ve had predominant disorders with a undeniable wide games firm which has blocked us from being ready to trademark Revolt or even Revolt.im – an immense scenario by the usage of defending users against abusive forks of the app. Secondly, folks incorrectly purchase Revolt refers to violence, fairly than the more constructive kinds of chaos we had in recommendations. Lastly, it made sense within the early days of Matrix to hang diversified brands as an instance the diversified roles of Revolt, Modular and Original Vector within the ecosystem… nevertheless this day there are hundreds of Matrix purchasers, Matrix web hosting suppliers and companies constructing on Matrix – and so all Original Vector’s diversified names were correct causing confusion.
So, why Ingredient?
We favor a name that shows the emphasis on simplicity and clarity that we aimed for when designing RiotX; a name that highlights our single-minded mission to create Ingredient primarily the most clear and usable mainstream comms app that you are going to be ready to contemplate of. Revolt had a moderately chequered historical previous, spending unprecedented of its lifestyles in beta, with intermittent attention to create till we hit 1.0 final year – nevertheless this day we hang a devoted beefy-time create crew engaged on Ingredient, who now not only create the graphics nevertheless the total behaviour of contemporary aspects within the app. Here is now not an effortless process, given it turns out the hardest bits of stop-to-stop encryption are almost entirely UX challenges. What’s more, presenting a world decentralised dialog community as merely as a centralised dialog island is surprisingly tricky. Nonetheless: we had been making broad development, to the extent that we’re barely recognisable because the Revolt of the previous. Ingredient shows a clear initiate to level of interest monomaniacally on mainstream usability in future.
We also favor a name that better evokes the thought that of data possession and self-sovereignty. A part is the smallest indivisible thing in a system – but one which would perhaps stand alone. It is likely you’ll per chance per chance perhaps furthermore customise it, alter it and create it your hang – you may per chance well be ready to literally be in your Ingredient!
Moreover, we favor a name that will be future-proof for take into yarn-to-take into yarn Matrix. As Matrix.org launched final month, P2P Matrix is in heavy pattern – and we’ll be in a position to look a world where Ingredient will literally be a fraction of Matrix, working your hang homeserver within the app, so that you may per chance well be ready to mumble whenever you don’t hang a server… or even Cyber web. In actuality, we printed the principle experimental get of P2P Revolt for iOS on Testflight just a few days within the past – so we’ll be in a position to clearly look a future where we’ll be in a position to be in our P2P component!
At final, we contemplate it’s a cool name 😀 It fits in successfully with the time length Matrix whereas now not being as nerdy as Vector. We’re obviously mindful that Ingredient is (over one more time) both a dictionary observe and a mathematical time length – nevertheless in observe, taking a take into yarn at search results for Ingredient real now, the stop hits are for dictionary sites(!) and the self-discipline is wide birth. Conversely, in a virgin browser on VPN, Revolt is the 4th hit on Google for Revolt; second only to a undeniable games firm. In other phrases, we’ve proven that we’ll be in a position to successfully undertake dictionary phrases – and whenever you develop fetch your self lost looking in a maze of mathematics, correct throw within the observe ‘chat’ to get encourage heading within the correct route. (For the total linear algebraists who are spitting with rage at this level: we promise we’ll create it as much as you by at final finding out latex give a improve to in Ingredient!)
This commerce is inevitably going to be disruptive, and we’re painfully mindful that we’ve spent four years improve Revolt’s reputation and persuading each person to trudge their chums, households and teams onto it. To reiterate what we said after we launched the commerce, we know that many folks finding out this is in a position to per chance per chance hang build their necks on the line to get folks to undertake Revolt, and we surely cherish how disturbing it’ll be to must picture the commerce to your users. Nonetheless, right here is definitely the applicable time to shed our pores and skin and create the commerce, and we hope folks will grow to admire Ingredient unprecedented bigger than they ever did Revolt. To encourage the transition, we’ve named the installable apps “Ingredient (Revolt.im)” for a whereas to wait on folks get reoriented (e.g. when looking by name for Revolt).
Last nevertheless now not least: Ingredient isn’t correct a new name – it comes with a broad suite of enhancements across Android, iOS and Web.
We’ll write about these in beefy over the coming days, nevertheless the broad headlines are that RiotX (our floor-up rewrite of Revolt Android) has exited beta, and replaces Revolt Android as Ingredient – whole with VoIP calls and Widget give a improve to! Revolt Android users will magically autoupgrade into Ingredient; the venerable RiotX app will be retired within the kill. FDroid is seemingly releasing Ingredient as a totally new app. In the interim On iOS we now hang beefy give a improve to for iOS 13, whole with entirely new push notification give a improve to (thanks to Apple’s nightmarish deprecation of PushKit).
On Ingredient Web, we’ve given the UI a broad refresh, with a sharp new font (Inter) giving unprecedented improved legibility, and we’ve entirely rewritten the Room List alter – including in room previews(!!), alphabetic ordering, resizable lists, improved notification UI and more. We’ve also landed the principle fragment of extra bettering the stop-to-stop encryption setup course of – letting users generate a restoration key fairly than forcing them to grab a restoration passphrase when constructing E2EE for the principle time (the following fragment is to lengthen constructing E2EE till the user surely begins talking in encrypted rooms).
So there you may per chance well furthermore hang it. Welcome to a whole new origin for Revolt: welcome to your new Ingredient, one where mainstream Matrix users will ride themselves too – and which would perhaps pave the manner for wider adoption of birth, stable, decentralised dialog by technique of Matrix at some level of the field.
– Matthew, Amandine, and the total Ingredient crew.
P.S. Strive our all-new web residing and particularly the migration web drawl for unprecedented more facts about our intrepid new world!
