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As a Tox user, I'd love to see some of these cryptographers calling it out actually contribute lines of code. Tox fills a niche. It might not be perfectly secur

As a Tox user, I'd love to see some of these cryptographers calling it out actually contribute lines of code. Tox fills a niche. It might not be perfectly secure, but there is also far more to software than the crypto. UI stuff takes a lot of grunt work. Please, improve this. As a user I want Tox to be secure. But also, as a user, I'll use it rather than Skype even if it does have some concerns. It's a genuine, open source, Skype replacement that more-or-less works. The encryption stuff is just the icing on the cake. It would be a great project even with zero encryption. /ramblerant

lvh 10y ago
Specific recommendations for a different protocol that does not have this concern were made, and a detailed bug report with repeated explanations of the issue were provided. Why is the onus on me to also go fix the problem, when it's repeated in the issue that the authors are mostly interested in stabilizing the codebase first? (That is not a criticism, but rather: not only do I not feel this is my responsibility, the way I read it, the maintainers don't want that contribution right now.)
- grayhatter 10y ago
  No, every Toxcore and Tox client welcome any contributions of any kind. Toktok especially. The sentiment I think we were going for is that we don't have the time when we're already working on the road map we started with. I think it's a recurring comment (If you know the problem, why don't you fix it), because it's really easy to drive by, shit all over someone's project (that they've put a lot of time into) then move on, leaving everyone who still cares about the project to feel shitty. This is in to way directed at you. You've been nothing but helpful, supportive, and understanding! You're most certainly one of the good ones. But not everyone else got that award for today.

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As a Tox user, I'd love to see some of these cryptographers calling it out actually contribute lines of code. Tox fills a niche. It might not be perfectly secur

by doctorfoo 10y ago

lvh 10y ago
Specific recommendations for a different protocol that does not have this concern were made, and a detailed bug report with repeated explanations of the issue were provided. Why is the onus on me to also go fix the problem, when it's repeated in the issue that the authors are mostly interested in stabilizing the codebase first? (That is not a criticism, but rather: not only do I not feel this is my responsibility, the way I read it, the maintainers don't want that contribution right now.)
- grayhatter 10y ago
  No, every Toxcore and Tox client welcome any contributions of any kind. Toktok especially. The sentiment I think we were going for is that we don't have the time when we're already working on the road map we started with. I think it's a recurring comment (If you know the problem, why don't you fix it), because it's really easy to drive by, shit all over someone's project (that they've put a lot of time into) then move on, leaving everyone who still cares about the project to feel shitty. This is in to way directed at you. You've been nothing but helpful, supportive, and understanding! You're most certainly one of the good ones. But not everyone else got that award for today.