Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and More

Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by exitcode00 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:13AM (#19144700)

No reason to get excited folks - its YAEC (yet another electron component).

Me: Wouldn't it be great if we had a light-weight native chat app that was compatible with all of the many slow-resource intensive chat programs i am chained to?

Everyone else: We have solved your problem by creating a new standard resource intensive chat program that solves none of your problems! Also it has cool animations!

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Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by johnmarcus on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @01:03PM (#19145843)

You: I’m too lazy to do much more than wine about my problems. Everyone else: well, we’re just going to hang out over here with the solution. Come join us when your done whining.

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Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by canthonytucci on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @01:17PM (#19146000)

I am excited by this project and so are a few people I showed it to.

I have 3 or 4 of these messengers open at any given time. Resource consumption has never been an issue for me - needing to have multiple "talk to people" windows/programs for what I consider the same task annoys me every single day.

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Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by Scarbutt on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:56AM (#19145175)

Well at least you only have to run one, instead of many.

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Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by edhelas on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:16AM (#19144733)

XMPP ?

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Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by exitcode00 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:21AM (#19144797)

Alas there are no video-chat programs out there that actually work well : /

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Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by edhelas on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:42AM (#19145037)

Tried Movim https://movim.eu/ ?

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Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by exitcode00 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:47AM (#19145090)

Electron

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Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by Boulth on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:40AM (#19145022)

aTalk on Android (XMPP client) works well for voice/video chat. It looks ugly though :)

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Re:Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsAp... by pmlnr on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @12:00PM (#19145228)

Pidgin with plugins. Lots of plugins.

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