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Comment by tbrockman | Hacker News Reader

I don't know why a significant amount of the comments are so critical of what seems like a pretty incredible project (and based on contributor statistics, primarily built by _a single person_), but I really like it and prefer the overall UX to Element so far (even though it's basically copied Discord entirely).

Also, the backend is written in _Rust_, I thought you guys LIKED THIS KIND OF THING!

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Welcome to Hackernews. Being sour is part of every user here just to spread negativity in the guise of "user feedback". Just ignore those comments and read the positive ones.

This project is really good. Really really good!

I agree with this comment. However, having mostly just a single person as the creator and maintainer means it has a truck factor of one.

A small team would inspire more confidence in the longevity of the project.

It's Open Source, the best possible remedy against many disgraces, bus factor included.

It sure helps that the code is open source. However, there are some factors that still make it harder for other people to pick up a project

- a lot of knowledge can be lost how the system works and has to be reverse engineered - which fork is the chosen one by the community and how will people know about it - branding might be unclear, can you reuse the name or should you rename your project

Maybe being featured on HN attracts more developers now?

You seem to consider this important, maybe you could volunteer?

Can you explain what you mean exactly?

Give me the UX of Revolt and the backend of Element

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