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Standalone Signal Desktop

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Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by woolvalley »

Deimorz wrote: post #72
jotto wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is eul open source?

The author said yesterday that he wants to open-source it, but won't be able to do it fully (he didn't elaborate on why not): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15587970

I think he is waiting for it to be a certain level of 'done' before he open sources it. Open sourcing something creates it's own workload.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by woolvalley »

kome wrote: post #27
mfwoods wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Signal Desktop works without having your phone turned on. It acts like a full, independent client after linking it to your smartphone app (unlike WhatsApp, which does require your phone to be turned on).

wow, sorry. my bad. So I guess there is a way to use signal without having a phone nowadays! That's a great news! I will try right now.

You can get a google voice number and just activate through that. On iOS you have to type a confirmation code in manually, so there is no need for a debug version there.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by maerek »

nikisweeting wrote: post #55

Why no web app? Moxie closed https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/723 without giving any reasoning. Can someone link me to a blog post that explains why Signal is refusing to release a web version? I cannot run another Electron app on my computer, I simply do not have the RAM left. Signal as a web-app would allow me to put it inside of Franz or Rambox, where all my other chat services live. Right n…

Not sure what I'm missing here, but I see Signal using 37.5MB of memory. That doesn't seem egregious, but I'm also not familiar with what other Electron apps use.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by woolvalley »

nikisweeting wrote: post #55

Why no web app? Moxie closed https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/723 without giving any reasoning. Can someone link me to a blog post that explains why Signal is refusing to release a web version? I cannot run another Electron app on my computer, I simply do not have the RAM left. Signal as a web-app would allow me to put it inside of Franz or Rambox, where all my other chat services live. Right n…

They are a small non-profit dev group, and resource wise it's probably not worth it for them.

You could indirectly solve this problem by making some sort of electron multiplexer that could take multiple electron apps and make them share the same electron host browser, achieving the same thing you have now.

I personally just use a bluetooth keyboard and my phone. I get a native app, keyboard typing and nothing hogging resources on my computer.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by axaxs »

amedvednikov wrote: post #53
tmikaeld wrote: post #5

Another 205MB Electron App to the collection, at least it's 50MB smaller than Wire.

eul is a light (4 MB) native desktop client for all popular messengers: https://eul.im Signal support is coming later this year. Right now it supports Slack, Skype, Facebook, and Gmail.

does it support relevant slack features...gifs, slackmojis, tags, etc?

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by Deimorz »

woolvalley wrote: post #85
Deimorz wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author said yesterday that he wants to open-source it, but won't be able to do it fully (he didn't elaborate on why not): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15587970

I think he is waiting for it to be a certain level of 'done' before he open sources it. Open sourcing something creates it's own workload.

No, I think it's more than that. He specifically said that it won't be possible to open-source some parts.
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