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    3 years ago

    I get the feeling they pre-maturely announced that to get some eyeballs from people looking for Freenode alternatives. Typical [Matrix] marketing BS.

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      3 years ago

      I don’t think that’s it. If you follow their channels you notice they were working a lot last weeks to get the MSC merged. The Freenode stuff just happened to happen at the same time.

      And even if it was on purpose, I don’t see anything wrong with it. I mean why not promote your alternative when you have the opportunity?

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        3 years ago

        And even if it was on purpose, I don’t see anything wrong with it. I mean why not promote your alternative when you have the opportunity?

        Sure, but it gets a bit annoying when you make again and again these grandiose announcements that on closer inspections turn out to be half-baked stuff far from prime-time.

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          3 years ago

          I mean it’s on you if you expect anything amazing from a “beta” announcement lol

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            If you make a “private Space for you and your team” and your invitees can’t see any rooms despite being invited to the Space, then I think it’s safe to say this was closed beta stuff at best. It really is a cycle of the same, you get excited about the big announcement but then realize something absolutely fundamental is still missing.

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            3 years ago

            Look up what “beta” usually means. This is at best an “alpha”, probably not even that.

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              3 years ago

              In my experience, the meaning use to be especific to the version model used in each project.

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                Sure the interpretations widely differ, but most commonly “beta” means “core feature complete” but needs testing and bug-fixing.

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                  I agree with that mostly. I use to read about it in game promotions or similar sometimes and some known projects mostly in which young people and/or market economy are involved.