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> You can improve the UX of Matrix clients No. Most people can't do that (because not everyone is a software developer).
I don't think he means you, or the users that needs this, but instead that it is possible to do if they are open source.
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Email is slowly becoming centralised unfortunately as small providers are pushed out by big companies. So it won't be long until we have global email outages.
Ham radio operators practice disaster ops, don't they ? How about indie email providers ?
Yep, actually enjoying the lack of notifications right now. Though for my closest friends and family we still have Signal as backup.
Sounds like a nice way to test new notification settings before putting them into production. Now go and apply them ;)
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That's a good thing. Forcing people to give their phone number to use an instant messaging app/protocol is a sign the company just wants your private data. Also, by doing that and letting the account existence be publicly known, anyone with their phone number will know that they have an account on that service and lets you try to contact them. That can range from privacy violation to life-in-danger situations.
I adamantly refuse to register for accounts that require my phone number unless it's for commercial or official purposes. The likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft can go take a long walk off a short plank. We give too much information away. Companies have shown that they are incapable of keeping the information private anyway. We get big scandals, the interwebs kick up a big stink, brows are furrowed, and then we…
If I gave my phone number to someone, I made an implicit social contract with that person or organization that they may contact me using that phone number. I don't see it as a big stretch if they use that number to send me a message or call me using WhatsApp, Signal or any other messenger where I registered using that same number. It's for the same purpose of communication, after all.
If I don't want to be contacted, I just don't share that number.
And it's not like people don't know that messengers or social networks can collect contact metadata about messages and calls. It's what traditional landline and mobile providers have been doing for ages.
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I don't think he means you, or the users that needs this, but instead that it is possible to do if they are open source.
I'm always befuddled by how some people really take things so literally...
That's why centralization is bad, especially for now-become critical services such as WA.
Even though I do have WhatsApp I wouldn't have noticed without this HN headline. Everyone I message with is via iMessage or Signal nowadays and I only have WhatsApp because I am part of a few sports clubs which have a WhatsApp group but we don't chat enough for me to notice a downtime like today. Makes me happy to see how I've actually managed to rid myself of WhatsApp for the most part.
In some countries WhatsApp is used by almost everyone. I wonder how much all those free users cost Meta each year. Just as a side thought :)
Yep, actually enjoying the lack of notifications right now. Though for my closest friends and family we still have Signal as backup.