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Re: Wire – Modern Communications Network

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Post by dirtyaura »

NullReference wrote: post #4

"What we need is another messaging app" said nobody, ever. It looks pretty, but this is yet another app in the long list of "Skype killers" or "Voice/video/text" messaging. It seems like it's the default goto for anyone that can't think of something more interesting these days.

There is no properly working cross platform mobile video chat yet, because it's a hard problem. All innovation in this space is welcome. Wire started without video, but I'm pretty sure that it is in their long-term plans.

Re: Wire – Modern Communications Network

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Post by darklajid »

tazjin wrote: post #73
sspiff wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Right now, I have installed on my phone: * Standard text messaging app, for almost everyone. * Google Hangouts, which is a pain to remove and always logs in behind my back. I don't want to chat on my phone, it's just a nuisance. (I wish people would stop talking to me through Hangouts, honestly) * Viber, with a single contact. * LINE, with a single contact. I don't have WhatsApp or Snapchat or whatever, but…

I have: * Telegram, with all my contacts (including several rather large group chats) * SMS, for telling new contacts to get Telegram I don't mourn XMPP, it wasn't very nice and especially not very mobile friendly.

Not very mobile friendly .. in what way?

The limitations I know of are 'fixed' with decent/recent clients (Stream Management comes to mind). Care to elaborate?

Re: Wire – Modern Communications Network

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Post by kristofferR »

jhasse wrote: post #60
hucker wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypta... Also, messages are not encrypted by default, and there is afaik no way to encrypt group chats. You have to create a special "secret" chat for the messages to be encrypted.

All messages are encrypted by default, but not client-client (in order to make cloud sync work): https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-just-make-all-chats-secre...

It is possible to create synced messages without depending on a server decrypting the messages. Here's how Tox is going to implement that: https://github.com/Quoturnix/ProjectTox-Core/wiki/Multiple-d...

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Post by [deleted] »

allan_ wrote: post #69
ekianjo wrote: post #51

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Yeah, totally agree, but looks that users always like to see the wheel being reinvented. It's kind of depressing, why fix what's not broken ?

I don't think users really want the wheel to be reinvented. More like companies try to lock you in on their tech and make money with you. Fragmentation? CEO gives a shit.

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