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Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by Veratyr on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:59AM (#14781058)
Three things:

- THANK YOU! It's near impossible to find a client that isn't either run in a console (admittedly not the worst problem) or horribly bloated (what the hell are people thinking when the bundle a browser to show a single page!?).

- What do you think of adding Matrix (https://matrix.org)? The protocol is HTTP + JSON based and well documented.

- Have you thought about open sourcing? My guess is either you want to sell this eventually or your coding standards are quite high and you doubt people can contribute too much while meeting them. In the case of the latter, I'd still like for it to be around, even if your standards for PRs would be too high for me to meet.

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Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by ptman on Sunday July 16, 2017 @05:48AM (#14781301)
I have to agree about matrix. In fact I think at this point effort should be focused on bridging protocols to matrix instead of each different client implementing support for protocols by themselves. Then the client can only implement matrix support.
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Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by ge0rg on Sunday July 16, 2017 @06:44AM (#14781439)
Protocol bridges always only provide a subset of the original functionality, mostly because it's impossible to fully map one protocol to another.

Of course, the same problem can happen for a multi protocol client as well, but at least it's not inherently impossible to solve it there.

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Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by alex-e on Sunday July 16, 2017 @06:28AM (#14781392)
Ideally yes, that's what should happen. But it's very unlikely...
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Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by alex-e on Sunday July 16, 2017 @06:33AM (#14781407)
Thanks!

Matrix will definitely be implemented at some point. Not within the first 2 months unfortunately.

Yes, my standards are pretty high, but like I said before here, I do consider open sourcing it.

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Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by noloblo on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:02PM (#14783588)
Is eul an electron app?
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Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by OJFord on Monday July 17, 2017 @12:59PM (#14790352)
No, OP said:

> I'm obsessed with performance. The entire application is about 4 MB, and it's never going to be more than 10 MB. In fact there are still many things to optimize. It's native, so you don't need to download a 100 MB browser just to use your IM client.

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