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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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