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Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by alex-e »

xur17 wrote: post #12

I've been getting frustrated with Slack for a while now, so thank you! I'm running into some issues on my Linux machine with the login experience - I sent you an email with more details.

Thanks for reporting. I haven't received anything from you yet. The e-mail is support@eul.im

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Ah! I see it now. Went into spam for some reason.

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by samueldavid »

alex-e wrote: post #7
ishu3101 wrote: post #6

How is this different from Franz - http://meetfranz.com or Manageyum - https://manageyum.com/ What technology & frameworks are used to create Eul? Does Eul support being able to use multiple accounts of Telegram, Gmail, Skype etc?

These are basically browsers with multiple tabs open. Eul is a native desktop app built in Go. It has all your contacts in one place, it's much faster, and it uses an order of magnitude fewer resources. Very good question about multiple accounts. Not right now, but it will be implemented very soon. This is going to be another unique advantage.

What did you use to make the GUI using Go?

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by alex-e »

omarchowdhury wrote: post #14

How can I be 100% sure of security?

I am most likely going to open source it, so you will be able to build your own version and control everything.

For now I guess you can only monitor the traffic with a tool like WireShark and see for yourself that eul only fetches current version for the autoupdates and submits error reports.

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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deckiedan wrote: post #13

Wow, awesome. Will you add IRC?

I was considering adding IRC but I thought that almost no one uses it these days (sadly!)

Ideally yes, I'd like to implement it. It's a stable protocol that's not going to change, so there's not much cost in maintaining it.

What are you using IRC for?

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by alex-e »

samueldavid wrote: post #16
alex-e wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are basically browsers with multiple tabs open. Eul is a native desktop app built in Go. It has all your contacts in one place, it's much faster, and it uses an order of magnitude fewer resources. Very good question about multiple accounts. Not right now, but it will be implemented very soon. This is going to be another unique advantage.

What did you use to make the GUI using Go?

I'm drawing it with OpenGL :)

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by alex-e »

bakoo wrote: post #11
alex-e wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VK, FB, Jabber, Telegram, and Signal. After that Viber and Discord most likely.

... and Mattermost, please? :)

Mattermost is the open source Slack alternative, right? I haven't considered these smaller projects yet, because there are a lot of them. Implementing new protocols takes time.

There are still a lot of crucial features I need to implement, but after eul is out of beta, Mattermost support should be there.

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