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Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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Re: Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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I'm confused. Not a Kik user, but how are public groups a unique feature (compared to say Subreddits)?

OP meant searchable public group. In discord you need an invite link, and there's no way to search by its name.

so exactly like irc only not irc, which makes it better because, um..?

Re: Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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One and a half year ago, I built an (unofficial) bot, Ragebot [0], that would function as spam protection for the many bot accounts joining public Kik groups. The project took off and was added to hundreds of thousands of groups by Kik users. Two days ago, Ted Livingston announced the closure and Kik has been chaos throughout ever since, with people adopting Discord and Telegram to retain their online friend circles.…

(At least some) groups on Telegram are searchable.

Re: Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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side note with the downfall of Kik, If anyone has experience with building group chat apps that scale, or is solid with react native, I am building a group chat app that eliminates the need to have invite codes or an admin to regulate who comes in to the group chat. People with association are in, randos cant even see the group exists.

Basic MVP with messing is already done, made with react native. Just need help with adding images, some login stuff, make it look a tad slicker, and most of all, the on going backend tweaking.

yes the world need yet another messaging app.

email is in the profile.

Re: Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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side note with the downfall of Kik, If anyone has experience with building group chat apps that scale, or is solid with react native, I am building a group chat app that eliminates the need to have invite codes or an admin to regulate who comes in to the group chat. People with association are in, randos cant even see the group exists. Basic MVP with messing is already done, made with react native. Just need help wit…

Why create a throwaway account to solicit contributors to your chat app? Comes across as sketchy.

Re: Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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side note with the downfall of Kik, If anyone has experience with building group chat apps that scale, or is solid with react native, I am building a group chat app that eliminates the need to have invite codes or an admin to regulate who comes in to the group chat. People with association are in, randos cant even see the group exists. Basic MVP with messing is already done, made with react native. Just need help wit…

Soooooo people are just supposed to give you very expensive highly specific consulting...

And you don't seem to value your product much or have a specific technical idea how to proceed.

10/10 Hackernews today

Re: Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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side note with the downfall of Kik, If anyone has experience with building group chat apps that scale, or is solid with react native, I am building a group chat app that eliminates the need to have invite codes or an admin to regulate who comes in to the group chat. People with association are in, randos cant even see the group exists. Basic MVP with messing is already done, made with react native. Just need help wit…

> I am building a group chat app that eliminates the need to have invite codes or an admin to regulate who comes in to the group chat. People with association are in, randos cant even see the group exists.

Curious as to how you'll make the last point work. Seems a little sketchy to me

Re: Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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Cryptocurrencies are scam. End. This is very simple.

Yes, they are a new kind of scam, a good name suggested is Nakamoto Scheme.

https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/

Also notable: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/05/debunking-bu... which doesn't outright call it a scam but certainly points out

> Git gives you pretty much everything offered by the business case for blockchains. The one thing it doesn’t do is add a ridiculously wasteful proof-of-work mechanism for who’s allowed to add transactions to the blockchain repository. Multiple examples of actually useful software branded “blockchain” turn out to be simplified versions of Git.

> Git was released in 2005, four years before Bitcoin — none of the good ideas in blockchains are new, and none of the new ideas have turned out to be much good.

Re: Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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Cryptocurrencies are scam. End. This is very simple. Yes, they are a new kind of scam, a good name suggested is Nakamoto Scheme. https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/ Also notable: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/05/debunking-bu... which doesn't outright call it a scam but certainly points out > Git gives you pretty much everything offered by the business case for blockchains. The one thing…

What a nonsense you have there. :D

Re: Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

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post #78

Cryptocurrencies are scam. End. This is very simple. Yes, they are a new kind of scam, a good name suggested is Nakamoto Scheme. https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/ Also notable: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/05/debunking-bu... which doesn't outright call it a scam but certainly points out > Git gives you pretty much everything offered by the business case for blockchains. The one thing…

Right. I'm going to challenge you to:

- prevent or reverse any of my transactions

- confiscate my bitcoin, or even find out how much I have

You can't, and never will.

Some cryptocurrencies are scams. But if you're saying all cryptocurrencies are scams, you're simply saying math and economics are a scam.

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