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element-web

Open, secure and interoperable communication for work and home.

  • Cloud
  • Communication
  • Media Applications
  • Network Services
  • Productivity
  • Tools & Utilities
Open, secure and interoperable communication for work and home. Used to call Riot-web. before the running the docker run
mkdir -p /mnt/user/appdata/element-web/config [/br]wget -O /mnt/user/appdata/element-web/config/config.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vector-im/element-web/develop/element.io/app/config.json

Platform availability

Available on 4 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS
  • Umbrel
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

71/100 Good

Maintained
No data
Popular
No data
Easy to install
504 install platforms, Docker image
Light to run
100256 MB minimum RAM, runs on ARM

Based on 2 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 15 days ago

No GitHub repository data collected yet.

Resources & Compatibility

Minimum requirements: 256 MB RAM, 1 CPU core(s), 100 MB disk. ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked 17 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

No first-install notes yet.

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Checked 14 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

Can self-hosted Element Web be used without internet connectivity?

Yes, Element offers install and support for air-gapped, isolated, and high-side instances that need no internet connectivity.

Can Element phone or PC apps fail to connect to a self-hosted Matrix server while the web app works?

Yes, a community thread describes a connectivity problem where the phone or PC app cannot reach the self-hosted Matrix server while the web app still works.

Can Element Web work with Matrix homeservers from different vendors?

Matrix offers vendor-agnostic federation so different solutions from different vendors can work together.

Where can I get help when self-hosting Element Web fails?

Check the Element help FAQs or send a message in a room to get community support.

Answers sourced from element.io, element.io, www.reddit.com

Community

Collected 11 days ago - public community threads