maybe sessions makes more sense to people than devices

[t3chguy]

https://matrix.to/#/!DgvjtOljKujDBrxyHk:matrix.org/$15071030174113448SwKsp:matrix.org

[lampholder]

If I understand correctly, the source of the 'device' confusion is that, on one physical device, you can sign in, sign out (disposing of your e2e encryption keys) and sign in again, resulting in two device ids. Is that right?

Session is an interesting alternative; it might well be closer to the concept we're trying to represent. My fear is that it might go too far in the opposite direction - people might intuitively expect a session to represent the literal common-parlance session of use of the app.

I think you're right that the device term is problematic; I think we need to think carefully about what we might replace it with.

[t3chguy]

That is right, plus you can have multiple "devices" on one physical device in alternate clients.

I had not considered session being a single session of use, most webapps I can think of use the term sessions when managing other devices signed in so not sure on that front

[aaronraimist]

This seems to be more or less solved on develop matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#3980