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phoreproject / graphene

Phore Synapse working repository
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Synapse collides badly as a name with matrix.org's reference server implementation #114

Closed ara4n closed 3 years ago

ara4n commented 3 years ago

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but: I just stumbled across this project and I'm concerned that the name collides badly with https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse - the reference Matrix server implementation. Given Matrix is in a similar space (decentralised communication) and bears a lot of similarities with blockchains (we actually use replicated Merkle trees for decentralisation), I'm worried that users might get badly confused between the two. Matrix's Synapse even has sharding work for scalability, for instance - https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-scalability.

So... given this project hasn't had that much visibility yet (e.g. only 9 github stars, relative to matrix-synapse's 6.8K) and is relatively new (matrix-synapse has been around and accelerating since 2014), I was wondering if you might consider renaming at this point to avoid future confusion? thank you! :)

meyer9 commented 3 years ago

Yep, we're already planning to rename it to Graphene. I'll switch the name tonight.

meyer9 commented 3 years ago

Fixed, thanks for the report!