Open Nothing4You opened 9 months ago
Changing the link is simple. The tricky part is the i18 translation key used for this messages says "Element.io" explicitly. I'm a monolingual burger, so I can only update the English one. I could take the nuclear option and delete the existing non-English translations if this change is considered important.
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when a user drafts a private message, they're warned about lemmy pms not being secure and are advised to use element.io instead.
over time, this has become more and more unfriendly to individual/personal users.
it looks like this link was originally added back in the very first PR in this repo back in September 2020: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1/commits/2eee93602687180976ad68de3d5f7a2cc4307cb3
back then, the page seems to have been fairly user friendly for individual users: https://web.archive.org/web/20200918192014/https://element.io/get-started
over time, this page slowly changed to include enterprise offers, prominently refer their sales team, over to being primarily marketed to enterprise users with a smaller note about free personal use below, removing the mention of free personal use and now outright scaring away users by prominently asking them to provide a bunch of personal details, including work email and company information, with only an inconspicuous "Want to download the free app?" link below that scary form.
https://matrix.org/try-matrix/ might be a reasonable alternative for this.
this is slightly related to #1893, but it can be addressed without supporting customization requested in #1893.