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I've been quite happy with Rambox, an app that aims to unify all your messaging services into one desktop app. Ironically, it's also built with Electron, but ri
by Tijdreiziger 10y ago
I've been quite happy with Rambox, an app that aims to unify all your messaging services into one desktop app. Ironically, it's also built with Electron, but right now, it's sitting at 30MB RAM and 0,1% CPU with 3 Slacks, WhatsApp, (FB) Messenger and Discord loaded.
http://rambox.pro/ http://rambox.pro/
- mos_basik 10y agoI can hardly imagine this working well, but I'm driven to install it and give it a try. Thanks for the link; maybe it will be magical!
- mercer 10y agoHave you ever used Franz? If so, is Rambox better, in your opinion? Franz doesn't seem to be much better in RAM than a browser, but I can't imagine what Rambox does to improve that.
- Tijdreiziger 10y agoI haven't used Franz, because it's not open-source. I actually found Rambox after hearing about Franz and searching for an open-source alternative. Both Rambox and (as I understand it) Franz just load the web interfaces of the services you configure, so performance wouldn't be better than Chromium, since that's what Electron uses. The added value is in the wrapper, which helps to keep everything organized, lets you open and close all services at once (by opening/closing Rambox), and provides a global 'do not disturb' mode for notifications.