Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love(etke.cc)
35 pointsby anotherevan5 hours ago8 comments
  • nickserv2 hours ago
    Wow, so much negativity, when the app scores really high on things that are supposed to be important here:

    * Desktop first, no electron crap

    * Open source and free

    * Linux first

    * Subjective, but to me it looks clean

    If getting all that means using some AI vibe code, that's fine by me. Who isn't these days anyway? (Be honest!)

    Anyway I hope the project is successful, more choice and competition in Matrix clients is a good thing.

    Now if only they can fix video calls...

    • invalidSyntaxan hour ago
      Vibe coding isn't bad. It's those people who do all there coding(?) with it and post it like it's there creation is the problem.
      • LoganDark7 minutes ago
        Who cares if they used AI assistance? Vision is theirs, prompting is theirs, guidance is theirs, verification and iteration and feedback and so on is theirs. It's not like they zero-shot "make a Matrix client for Linux" and then just posted that with zero processing, review, testing, or anything. Sheesh.
    • blurbleblurble28 minutes ago
      People are afraid and taking it out on others
  • stryan2 hours ago
    Having the core of your app be written in languages you self-admittedly don't understand is a bold move. I've been a big fan of the ansible-matrix playbooks for a while now so I'm willing to see this play out, but it doesn't fill me with confidence.
  • realityfactchex3 hours ago
    It's great that etke.cc chose to build on nheko (a very fast Matrix client) and put in many thoughtful upgrades.

    I really hope Komai start getting built for macOS.

  • aselimov34 hours ago
    This looks very ugly compared to other matrix clients
    • unbolted30323 hours ago
      This may be a matter of taste, because I quite like the approach the ekte team have taken.

      To my eye, the app is clean and minimal and shows me everything I need easily.

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  • mrsssnake2 hours ago
    While I could understand some AI assistance, I just cannot look at such README with clearly sloppy too detailed nonsense app icon and eyesore emoji vomit:

    https://github.com/etkecc/komai

    • unlicensed2 hours ago
      It is utterly annoying to see emojis pollute information presented in a technical manner. It’s the hallmark of generated technical slop and seems to appeal to the perpetual resume polishers found on LinkedIn.
      • nickserv2 hours ago
        A lot of younger developers seem to really like this. Not a big fan personally, but you gotta live with the times I suppose.

        I do draw the line when they start putting them in console outputs though.

  • hperrin2 hours ago
    AI slop app.
  • fatliverfreddy2 hours ago
    You can teach a person to write programs. You can't teach good taste.