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Multi-account #11

Open nadonomy opened 3 years ago

nadonomy commented 3 years ago

Summary Today, it's not possible to sign in to multiple Matrix accounts in Element, which isn't ideal for users who want to do this, especially on mobile, and furthermore those participating in lots of encrypted rooms.

Intended outcome Implement the ability to sign in to multiple accounts and switch between them on all platforms.

BloodyIron commented 2 years ago

Can we get this assigned to a human? This has been a requested feature since 2017, and has been in the "Next" section since Nov 2020.

seconddayout commented 2 years ago

Why has this been demoted from Next to Later? What needs to happen to get the Element team to prioritize this?

github-tomster commented 2 years ago

@seconddayout consider that 'multi account' feature is something so old like the 'messenger-era' itself. to state something like: An open network for secure, decentralized communication and at the same time preventing multi-account 🤦🏻‍♂️ failure by design one could think 🤷🏻‍♂️ this is all a joke 🤡

btw: anyone here with more than one emailaddress 🤣

tl;dr: 'developing' something like this and not even considering multi-account from scratch... wtf

coffeemesh commented 2 years ago

Since almost everybody is opening their own servers, it keeps requiring me to sign in to different accounts all the time. This feature would be godsent!

xRealNeon commented 2 years ago

Since almost everybody is opening their own servers, it keeps requiring me to sign in to different accounts all the time. This feature would be godsent!

You know that you don't need an account for every server? You can send a message from one server to another like an email.

@coffeemesh

almereyda commented 2 years ago

There are servers which decidedly do not federate.

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BloodyIron commented 2 years ago

Since almost everybody is opening their own servers, it keeps requiring me to sign in to different accounts all the time. This feature would be godsent!

You know that you don't need an account for every server? You can send a message from one server to another like an email.

@coffeemesh

That doesn't mean there isn't valid functional need here. There is.

trymeouteh commented 2 years ago

Cannot wait for this on desktop and mobile.

nik2323 commented 1 year ago

Очень нужная вещь чтобы не пользоваться 2 разных приложения.

urielarg commented 1 year ago

Why no one at Matrix seems to care about this issue??? at least write something for the community who actually cares to report this feature request...

ptman commented 1 year ago

@urielarg There are clients other than element that have multi-account support https://matrix.org/clients-matrix/

Jan02 commented 1 year ago

multi-account support will bring more users.

genofire commented 1 year ago

Dissussion:

Issues Collection per Application (i do not list all the duplicates):

DraconicNEO commented 1 year ago

Seriously this is a critical feature for a decentralized platform like Matrix where it is almost guaranteed that users will Have multiple accounts. Not being able to sign into multiple accounts is a huge detriment, especially since you can't exactly log out of your accounts to switch between them since you need to keep the account logged in in at least one place else you lose your E2E keys and then can't retrieve older encrypted messages.

vollkorntomate commented 1 year ago

Shouldn’t such a feature be considered from the very beginning, as it determines quite a lot of the underlying architecture? Having multiple accounts means the app needs to manage multiple encryption keys separately, but still somehow handle decryption in order to show notifications for each account. Changing these very basic things later on seems like quite an effort and I’m worried that this issue will still be open for another six years.

Coehill commented 1 month ago

Since it's been nearly a year, is there any update on this?

BloodyIron commented 1 month ago

If you read this board: https://github.com/element-hq/roadmap/projects/1

You'll see they "stopped using this in 2022"... yet didn't tell anyone beyond an area people don't seem to even be aware of (not that I really was myself).