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Re:Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im by floatboth on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:22PM (#16259451)
You don't need Electron. It's just a web app. I just run Riot as a pinned tab in Firefox.
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Re:Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im by thomastjeffery on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:49PM (#16259652)
That doesn't make it any less clunky or sluggish.
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Re:Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im by NoGravitas on Monday January 29, 2018 @02:01PM (#16259770)
Eh, it reduces the memory overhead to run it in your existing browser rather than run a separate browser runtime just for Riot.
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