Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app

Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by amelius on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:54AM (#12546508)

Can't we just agree on one standard already? I hate having to use multiple messaging apps, that's the biggest UX failure right there, and it desperately needs fixing! Forget about all the other features!

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by oddvar on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @05:38AM (#12546665)

agreed! This is what we're trying to do with Matrix (https://matrix.org)

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by anentropic on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:02AM (#12547366)

I couldn't easily tell what it is from reading the homepage

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by Arathorn on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:32AM (#12547569)

we're about to rewrite the homepage to fix that :) (i work on matrix, obviously)

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by arbitrage on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:46AM (#12548080)

So ... what does it do?

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by edhelas on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:17AM (#12548332)

XMPP http://xmpp.org/ ? Or maybe Matrix if you want a nice XKCD-927 project :)

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