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Comment by st3fan | Hacker News Reader

Open up https://chat.mozilla.org in your browser. Although there are multiple apps, you don't need one.

I tried to register and was met with this message:

Cannot reach homeserver Ensure you have a stable internet connection, or get in touch with the server admin

It's trying to make a GET request to this URL and 404'ing:

You have to click on "Sign In" and use the Mozilla SSO. Hiding the registration link is an open issue.

I did so. Followed the steps to provide an email and then click the link in the email.

That brought me to this page:

Which only displayed the word

    Forbidden

It took me some tries to log in, because my first chosen user name started with a capital letter.

They mean it when they say "User ID can only contain characters a-z, 0-9, or '=_-./".

Is that really so esoteric?

Queue the "I don't have a graphical web browser installed, and I don't want to" comments.

For the people considering leaving such comments, there are terminal clients available https://matrix.org/clients/

Presumably those people can find their way to the weechat plugin :)

That link just tells me to go visit an AppStore.

I thought you said it was web-based?

desktop view shows me a full web client.

Click through to the desktop site.