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Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by corin_ »

tracker1 wrote: post #72
corin_ wrote: post #62

A lot of negativity, but despite its limitations I already love it. (OK love's too much, but it's a big improvement for me at least.) I don't use whatsapp with a huge number of people, but some of them I talk to daily on it. When we're both behind a computer (work hours, sometimes outside them) we'll often move to Skype to be able to type quicker. Skype's pretty horrible on phones (for me and most people I know), so…

Have you considered Google Hangouts? I tend to use that for most of my chatting, so never really "got" whatsapp.

I don't know anyone who uses them - or at least, nobody has ever suggested I use them. And I haven't been interested enough to try myself to consider converting other users. I've got enough communication routes already without adding a new one unless it can either replace one of the current ones (I won't get all my friends who use whatsapp to switch so it won't do that) or I need it to talk to a subset of people I know (not the case currently with hangouts - this was why I started using whatsapp in the first place, though)

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by corin_ »

dpacmittal wrote: post #60
raonyguimaraes wrote: post #52

This is apparently not available in my country (Brazil) ... Whatsapp version 2.11.476 updated on 16 jan 2015 I guess it's only limited to US and other regions.

Used a US VPN to see whats the latest version and its 2.11.491, which is the same as installed version on mine (India). However, I still don't see the option to scan QR code.

I'm on WP8 which I imagine you probably aren't, so this may not be useful to you, but in case it's relevant across platforms, or in case there are any WP8 readers:

a.) I updated when I saw this HN submission, a 17mb update, to version 2.11.634 (it didn't updated automatically, but was available when I checked my app store)

b.) Opening whatsapp after the update showed it had updated (I could see some other features that had changed), but I couldn't find the web option. After killing whatsapp and restarting it, it then appeared on a menu where it hadn't been before

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by dutchbrit »

Strange that this isn't on the frontpage, anyhow, for people who can't get it working for Android, try the following APK: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/whatsapp-inc/whatsapp/whatsapp-... (yes, it's not the newest release but they did a rollback after this version removing the web menu item). Reboot your phone after installing.

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by dutchbrit »

SchizoDuckie wrote: post #33
jug5 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems you need a version of WhatsApp on your phone that isn't out yet.

Indeed. Play Store says I have the latest version... anybody have a working apk?

Try the following APK: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/whatsapp-inc/whatsapp/whatsapp-.... (yes, it's not the newest release but they apparently did a rollback after this version removing the web menu item)

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by everhardt »

josu wrote: post #70
balls187 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assumption: WhatsApp for iOS is in the 5 business day App Store approval queue.

"Unfortunately for now, we will not be able to provide web client to our iOS users due to Apple platform limitations." And even if they could, I'd doubt that they'd make Facebook wait 5 days for their app to be aproved.

Assumption: the platform limitation is that it's not allowed to run an app (continuously) in the background, which is required for WhatsApp web

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by WaterSponge »

kiwidrew wrote: post #78

It works quite well. They've done a great job at following Google's "Material Design" prescriptions while -- surprisingly -- not actually using the Polymer framework. First time I've seen that. The app loads some interesting libraries: * CryptoJS 3.1.2 (for AES and HMAC-SHA256) * punycode 2.1.4 * bluebird 2.5.3 * React 0.12.2 (with addons) It's entirely possible that they really are doing end-to-end crypto...

They did this recently:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/11/18/whatsapp_...

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by _ciz9 »

hawkice wrote: post #11

I'm using Chromium, says it only supports Chrome. Can we shave some characters off the regex here?

As a temporary solution, you could spoof the user agent by running chromium from command line: chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11"

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by PauloManrique »

It's 2015, we use multiple devices, phones, tablets, computer, smart TVs, and they still didn't figure that out?

Come on, ICQ, Telegram, Groupme, Viber and tons of other apps have multiple clients for multiple devices.

Sadly people take too long to change, or else WhatsApp would be dead already.

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by vincvinc »

corin_ wrote: post #62

A lot of negativity, but despite its limitations I already love it. (OK love's too much, but it's a big improvement for me at least.) I don't use whatsapp with a huge number of people, but some of them I talk to daily on it. When we're both behind a computer (work hours, sometimes outside them) we'll often move to Skype to be able to type quicker. Skype's pretty horrible on phones (for me and most people I know), so…

> not needing to keep grabbing my phone to see what's been said, is a great change for me. One that I was complaining about just the other day without realising this was around the corner.

Just try, with some friends, to switch to Telegram for a day or two. It is like Whatsapp but has open source clients for most platforms that always sync between them. I have the Windows and Android clients open most of the time and don't even think any more about whether I have to contact this or that friend by typing on my laptop, desktop or phone.

There's other arguments like the open API, the team's dedication to security from the start, the ability to invite people to chat with you via a URL/username (so they won't know your phone number), it has an open sticker system (using WebP), etc. but the way the clients work seamlessly is why I can't stop bothering those people I still start up Whatsapp or Skype for to make them switch (and quite a few have already).

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