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Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by amedvednikov »

pharrington wrote: post #106
owenversteeg wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, I'll bite. After checking out the guy and his project, it seems like he's really truly passionate about making minimal, fast software. I love it: I do a similar thing myself (I made the smallest, fastest CSS framework.) I can tell it in his comments and the effort he's put into this. It's a totally unique project, and as far as I can google, it's the only one of its kind. In a world of massive, bloated apps that…

Additionally, he's registered eul.im as a private company. The registration info is trivially available by searching the company #(11072989) on his website. He is a Netherlands resident who registered eul.im as a one person UK software company. At least 10,000 other companies use the same postal address as eul.im. The software in question, as everyone agrees, has no revenue model, and isn't even currently available f…

Sorry for the delay, I missed this discussion.

I did this to get the code signing certificate primarily. For some reason it's really hard to get a personal certificate, there's a lot of bureaucracy, and the notaries I talked to said they couldn't help me verify the documents.

I registered it online in the UK because it literally took 6 minutes. I'll register it in the Netherlands later.

It wasn't available for download because it wasn't ready :) Now there's a working download link.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by amedvednikov »

asantos3 wrote: post #62
amedvednikov wrote: post #32

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I'm working on a desktop client for Twitter, FB, Slack etc. It's pretty snappy and weighs only 90 KB (!) https://eul.im Twitter support is coming later this month.

I'm calling bullshit on you, your shenanigans and all of the blind idiots. 1. I can't download past versions and there's no current version to download till tomorrow. Why... 2. You have no github and hn history besides spamming the shit of eul and I can't trust no proprietary third party shit. 4. Do you really think you can open source something that could bite your ass legally (whatsapp)? Will you partially open sou…

Sorry for the delay, I missed this discussion.

>I can't download past versions and there's no current version to download till tomorrow. Why...

Because it wasn't ready yet.

> Will you partially open source all of it minus whatsapp or what?

Yes, that's an option.

> Do you really think anyone not stupid believes you can support so much shit and being native and 90 KB (version 0.27 coming tomorrow) when the past versions downloaded a GB?

The past version downloaded a browser (150-400 MB depending on your OS) for authentication, which was really silly. Now it doesn't.

And yes, it actually is a 90 KB app :) Of course it will grow as more features are added, but it will never be more than 1 MB.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by amedvednikov »

pharrington wrote: post #74
owenversteeg wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, I'll bite. After checking out the guy and his project, it seems like he's really truly passionate about making minimal, fast software. I love it: I do a similar thing myself (I made the smallest, fastest CSS framework.) I can tell it in his comments and the effort he's put into this. It's a totally unique project, and as far as I can google, it's the only one of its kind. In a world of massive, bloated apps that…

As far as I can tell from the issues, previous versions of his software loaded the chat service in question's website in a browser, and then either applied a custom stylesheet to the webpage or attempted to extract portions of the HTML content for display. eul.im literally never was minimal. He can keep saying it's minimal software, but until he produces something that both consistently works and doesn't consume orde…

This is not correct. The browser was used only for authentication. It is no longer downloaded.

I wasn't working on eul full-time. Now I am (starting this month). So the development process is going to be a lot faster.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by amedvednikov »

owenversteeg wrote: post #73
asantos3 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm calling bullshit on you, your shenanigans and all of the blind idiots. 1. I can't download past versions and there's no current version to download till tomorrow. Why... 2. You have no github and hn history besides spamming the shit of eul and I can't trust no proprietary third party shit. 4. Do you really think you can open source something that could bite your ass legally (whatsapp)? Will you partially open sou…

Ok, I'll bite. After checking out the guy and his project, it seems like he's really truly passionate about making minimal, fast software. I love it: I do a similar thing myself (I made the smallest, fastest CSS framework.) I can tell it in his comments and the effort he's put into this. It's a totally unique project, and as far as I can google, it's the only one of its kind. In a world of massive, bloated apps that…

Sorry for the delay, I missed this discussion.

Thanks for your support :) I tried to answer to all concerns in this thread.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by amedvednikov »

pharrington wrote: post #81
owenversteeg wrote: post #77

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Look, it's an issues page, and it's one-man free software. He's a few days late with the update for a free piece of software, so what? The dude's earning $11 a month on Patreon. Give him a damn break. Not to be grumpy to you, but I'd like to defend him. He's got an extremely noble goal. Those that "get it" really get it, and those that don't don't. I'm fed up with using several different shitty closed source apps tha…

I am quite familiar with one person free software projects. I use quite a few, and have released one myself. The variety and severity of problems in eul.im over such a short period of time is aberrant. He claimed Discord support since 15/09/2017 - two months later, Discord support still wasn't available. He's been claiming since 28/09/2017 that he'd submit his app to Homebrew. As of four hours ago, he never said a pe…

It was not a native app because I was using OpenGL to render content, not a browser.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by skinnymuch »

lokedhs wrote: post #108
skinnymuch wrote: post #107

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I am really interested in how you found people too.

I joined an instance which focuses on the things I'm interested in, and look at the local timeline. That timeline contains original posts (i.e. not replies) posted from that instance. I'd follow pretty much anyone posting anything remotely interesting. A lot of people tend to boost interesting posts, and following people whose posts gets boosted allows you to grow your follow list with interesting posts. Unfollowing…

Can you mention your instance or how you went about finding it? Sorry for more questions
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