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Unlikely to be successful? This app has near zero chance of surviving a legal challenge from Slack.
Author of Ripcord. You don’t know what you’re talking about and shouldn’t broadcast your assumptions as fact.
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That's interesting. I find managing Teams' multiple windows cumbersome and confusing, but find Slack very natural and efficient. Do you end up sending messages in the wrong chat often? Or missing messages or both? What do the main frustrations of a single window setup look like?
On a Mac, Teams doesn't obey many of the user interface guidelines, so multi-window use is unintuitive and difficult. Of course nothing in Mac Teams is nearly as bad as their incoming call notification - calls pop up under all your existing calendar/email/... notifications, which you have to furiously click away in order to answer the call.
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Should clarify: the comment above me by @amedvednikov is referring to this comment chain's original poster -- @Mandatum -- not the parent or link submitter, and the post mentioned is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838788
Big yikes. Thanks for clearing this up. I totally misinterpreted the accusation.
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Click on the username => submissions
Ah, ok, I would call that a “submission” but it’s an “Ask HN” so I see where you came up with “post”. Note that the submission page is sorted chronologically, not by karma. So the concept of “top” is really more like “first”. It seems you meant to point out that @Mandatum admitted to lying but the way you phrased it really made it difficult to verify the claim and came across to me like you were accusing @jessefied12…
And indeed, the submissions are sorted chronologically. So I should've used "latest", not "top".
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#235Ripcord survived C&D letters because it didn't charge. I feel bad for OP for putting all this work in, because it's really cool - but you're going to get sued.
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Want to double-down on this. I read "native" and immediately assumed the main selling point was perf - which enticed me to open the link.
Paying for native macOS apps is like buying vinyl records. It’s an aesthetic choice, nothing more.
- accessibility built in which benefits everyone
- native application scripting
- consistent keyboard shortcuts, including focus ring movement
- ability to App Nap / fast system shutdown
- consistent retina/DPI behavior across display drags
I've been developing Mac native software for 20 years now and I'm still wowed by some of the things that come with the toolkit for free.