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Community of SimpleX Chat users – managed by the team.

SimpleX Chat is the first chat platform that is 100% private by design – it has no user identifiers of any kind and no access to your connections graph – it's a more private design than any alternative we know of.

Please ask any questions and make feature suggestions. Your ideas and criticism are very welcome!

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How is SimpleX Chat officially pronounced? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there an official statement on how SimpleX is pronounced?

Is it "simple ecks"? Is it just the English word, "simplex"? Is it something else?

If there is no official statement, how do the developers say it?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ˈsɪmpl̩ ɛks

you can hear this pronunciation in this talk from Evgeny Poberezkin, the author of the whitepaper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks. That audio is the closest I've heard to a definitive source so far. Unfortunately, it's still unclear.

If I'm expecting to hear a pause between "simpl" and "ex" when he says it, I can perceive a very slight one. But when I listen again expecting to hear the syllables "sim" and "plex", I perceive that version just as clearly; maybe even more clearly.

His accent makes it difficult to work out his intent. (Note also the way he pronounces "adversary": not at all how it's pronounced in English, though not confusing in this case because there is no other word he could mean.)