Hummingbard
Consumer and social
decentralized community forums
SHOW HN2021
412points
83comments
#67of 2,533 in 2021
Top 3%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
7 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool non-IM use of Matrix
From 3 comments
It's insanely cool to see a non-IM use case built out on top of Matrix appearing (almost) out of the blue - congratulations :) The implementation currently freestyles a bit on…
Arathorn on HNI haven't gotten into the Matrix scene yet, but just want to say I think this is really cool and I can imagine there is a niche that would really appreciate it.
CitrusFruits on HNThis is an essential extension of Matrix, great job! For more signups, it would be great to support social logins. That has been implemented in some version of Matrix, but I’m…
erlend_sh on HN
Essential extension of Matrix
From 1 comment
This is an essential extension of Matrix, great job! For more signups, it would be great to support social logins. That has been implemented in some version of Matrix, but I’m…
erlend_sh on HN
Objections
Using Matrix beyond its intended use may cause problems
From 1 comment
Why? I mean, it's cool to see people build interesting things, and I like to see tools used in unorthodox ways, but it just seems to me that using Matrix for something other than…
betwixthewires on HN
Matrix performance and resource use is heavy
From 2 comments
Wow, this is really cool! My biggest issue with Matrix right now is performance, does it use Synapse as a backend and if so are there plans to move to dendrite in the future?
jarbus on HNPerf problems arise with Synapse if those 2000 rooms include massive ones with tens or hundreds of thousands of users (or other state events). The number of local users is fairly…
Arathorn on HN
Custom event formats not visible in other Matrix clients
From 1 comment
It's insanely cool to see a non-IM use case built out on top of Matrix appearing (almost) out of the blue - congratulations :) The implementation currently freestyles a bit on…
Arathorn on HN
Requests
Source code release
From 2 comments
Is this open source? Deplatforming is a very big concern for a proprietary platform.
ampdepolymerase on HNBuried towards the bottom of the post: > Hummingbard’s code will be available as soon as I am able to decide which license works best for us.
svieira on HN
Social login support
From 1 comment
This is an essential extension of Matrix, great job! For more signups, it would be great to support social logins. That has been implemented in some version of Matrix, but I’m…
erlend_sh on HN
Developer experience write-up
From 1 comment
This is very cool! If you end up writing about what the developer experience on top of Matrix is like I'd also be curious about that.
kixiQu on HN
Questions
Is the code open source and under what license
From 3 comments
Is this open source? Deplatforming is a very big concern for a proprietary platform.
ampdepolymerase on HNBuried towards the bottom of the post: > Hummingbard’s code will be available as soon as I am able to decide which license works best for us.
svieira on HNNo but in the next couple days. I actually wanted to go with the strictest copyleft license, but there was a discussion earlier about dual-licensing, which left me quite…
SubGenius on HN
How does it compare to movim.eu
From 1 comment
How does this compare to movim.eu (based on XMPP)?
zaik on HN
Does it use Synapse or Dendrite
From 2 comments
Wow, this is really cool! My biggest issue with Matrix right now is performance, does it use Synapse as a backend and if so are there plans to move to dendrite in the future?
jarbus on HNHey, it's not integrated into a server, it just requires Dendrite (a beta Matrix server implementation) for certain features (like threading) that have not been implemented in…
SubGenius on HN
Alternatives named
Movim (XMPP)
From 1 comment
How does this compare to movim.eu (based on XMPP)?
zaik on HN
ActivityPub platforms
From 1 comment
Why? I mean, it's cool to see people build interesting things, and I like to see tools used in unorthodox ways, but it just seems to me that using Matrix for something other than…
betwixthewires on HN
Facebook Groups
From 1 comment
This sounds terrific, and I can’t wait to try it out! I’m looking for an easy to use alternative to Facebook Groups. With an app (sometime soon, I hope), there’s a better chance…
newscracker on HN