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Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#31

Post by stryan »

I'm interested to see how they handle the Facebook messenger bridge since FB seems to rather aggressive about the bridge from logging in.

I've been running Tulir's bridge [0] for a few months now and my Facebook account gets locked out every week or so (requiring unlocking and a new password).

EDIT: Looking at the code, they use Tulir's bridge as well. I'd be..cautious about claming production level support with it due to the afore mentioned logout issue. Which is a shame since all of Tulir's bridges are high quality.

The bridgebox repo appears to be a bunch of bridges in docker containers. I wonder if it's really worth running the bridgebox and not a homeserver, versus using matrix-docker-ansible-deploy [1]. You already need the VPS space.

[0]: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-facebook

[1]: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#33

Post by lowmemcpu »

> NovaChat is a paid app with a monthly fee of $10 (price may go up after beta period)

Wow $10/mo?! Pidgin was the multi-network chat tool, and was free! I'd understand $10 one-time, but not per month. And the price may go up? No thanks

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#37

Post by KishanBagaria »

Arathorn wrote: post #34
KishanBagaria wrote: post #16

We're working on a similar idea at https://texts.com It supports iMessage as well, isn't based on Matrix and is completely local.

is not being based on Matrix a good thing? :D

:) Maybe? It has a new abstraction so it's kinda competing with Matrix as well.

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#38

Post by ChrisClark »

RMPR wrote: post #28
erohead wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I made this) It works with any matrix client. But the UI naturally is not as nice. I use it daily with RiotX on Android and it works fine.

If the claim of GP is true that your app is electron, why mention this? >NovaChat is not a browser/Chromium solution that opens many tabs to different chat networks like Franz, Shift or Station

Because it's not? It's an app built in Electron that talks to their server. It's not an app built in Electron that opens up the official webpages for each of these chat apps.

Re: NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat

#39

Post by erohead »

stryan wrote: post #31

I'm interested to see how they handle the Facebook messenger bridge since FB seems to rather aggressive about the bridge from logging in. I've been running Tulir's bridge [0] for a few months now and my Facebook account gets locked out every week or so (requiring unlocking and a new password). EDIT: Looking at the code, they use Tulir's bridge as well. I'd be..cautious about claming production level support with it d…

Ah well I make no claims to this being production level reliability. It's very much beta software. Very beta :) For those who have the capability of setting up a web server and configuring DNS, I would recommend using matrix-docker-ansible and host it all yourself.

The bridgebox is actually designed to run on a raspberry pi, my plan is to give each user a free Pi to run their bridgebox.

Send me a note on matrix, I'd love to chat! @eric:nova.chat

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