NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#1

Post by memexy » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 6:47 PM UTC

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#2

Post by stonogo » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:14 PM UTC

Closed-source, single-dev Matrix frontend that doesn't even mention MS Teams. I want to like it, but for a monthly service fee it needs to be absolutely flawless and it needs to have enterprise auth nailed -- including O365/Exchange. I also can't figure out what this does that XMPP did not do -- XMPP did all of the above and still didn't really last.

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#3

Post by addajones » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:14 PM UTC

Trillian, Adium, Pigdin for 2020? Lol. What a mess the internet has become.

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#4

Post by loceng » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:16 PM UTC

addajones wrote: post #3

Trillian, Adium, Pigdin for 2020? Lol. What a mess the internet has become.

Those were all free too if I remember correctly?

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#5

Post by meddlin » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

While I'm sure it's a fine app, this oddly looks like a graduation of using Thunderbird in ~2006 as a multi-email client.

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#6

Post by elchin » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:24 PM UTC

I remember using Trillian back in the day, and the problem was that they couldn't keep up with features of each chat network, so I had go back to using ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc. separately.

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#7

Post by coding123 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:24 PM UTC

The target customer seems a bit odd. Typically people will have exactly 1 paid service for chat. Like, probably Slack. And that's already $$ per month per user. So is this for individuals that have their company pay for slack, and then like, what also pay for the luxury chat client that let's the employee add like a bunch of personal chat accounts?

On the other hand, if they're expecting individuals to pay for this (at $10/mo and that's during beta) just like, because, that's going to be a challenging market.

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#8

Post by coding123 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

loceng wrote: post #4

addajones wrote: post #3

Trillian, Adium, Pigdin for 2020? Lol. What a mess the internet has become.

Those were all free too if I remember correctly?

Yes they were, except I think Trillian had a pro version.

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#9

Post by rtomanek » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:28 PM UTC

> Eric Migicovsky

Is this the Eric of Pebble fame? I have a lot of warm feelings here, I actually still wear one. :)

While I prefer open communication protocols and clients, the reality seems to be the world has sadly moved on from this. Hopefully Nova will be of as high quality as Pebble was.

Good luck!

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#10

Post by erohead » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

stonogo wrote: post #2

Closed-source, single-dev Matrix frontend that doesn't even mention MS Teams. I want to like it, but for a monthly service fee it needs to be absolutely flawless and it needs to have enterprise auth nailed -- including O365/Exchange. I also can't figure out what this does that XMPP did not do -- XMPP did all of the above and still didn't really last.

it's (mostly) open source, actually: https://gitlab.com/nova