Re:Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack
by Perceptes on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:27PM
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It makes me sad that people continue to put their time and effort into supporting these closed communication systems. If anyone else is considering making something like this, please base your efforts on Matrix. It's so much better for us and so much more deserving of our attention.
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Re:Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack
by helge5 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:34PM
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Chicken and Egg. People don't use Matrix.
Re:Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack
by yoavm on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:40AM
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That's less of a problem with Matrix. I set up a WhatsApp bridge because all my friends are on WhatsApp, and now I can use any matrix client, even a very lightweight CLI one, to talk with them.
Re:Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack
by rtpg on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @09:07PM
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To be fair, for an internal communications usecase you just need to convince your company, not half the world
I’d open source comms tools leaned more into business use cases (mattermost does this well) then there could be more usage
Re:Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack
by CharlesW on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:38PM
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> To be fair, for an internal communications usecase you just need to convince your company, not half the world
I imagine that's true for companies whose users stick to internal workspaces, but often the most active/vocal users (1) participate in multiple (often professional) non-company workspaces, and (2) don't want to run Yet Another Chat client.