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Show HN: Desktop all in one messenger
- Bjartr 9y agoIs this this functionally different from Pidgin and other libpurple based messengers?
- ubertaco 9y agoYes, but maybe not in a good way -- this is basically just a tabbed electron wrapper around various chat webapps.
- pythonaut_16 9y agoI'm pretty sure this one brings all of their various Electron and web app versions under one app and shares the Chromium runtime among them, while Pidgin and libpurple would be based on accessing their APIs directly
- beagle3 9y agoI would call it "A messenger" at all only if it had history search that spanned services. I often remember I got a message from X about Y but to find it I have to look independently in whatsapp, iMessage, email and 2 bulletin board style systems.
- snroki 9y agotoo bad it's not open-source, unlike http://rambox.pro/ http://rambox.pro/
- jdhawk 9y agoI love RamBox - and hope it continues to gain momentum. Really wish someone would add Spell Check support.
- factorialboy 9y agoJust tried Rambox. It's good, very convenient.
- bobsgame 9y agoThis is awesome!
- inetsee 9y agoIt doesn't seem to support Open Whisper Systems Signal messaging app. Did I miss it in the list, or is there some other reason why it's not included?
- Tajnymag 9y agoFranz is basically a browser wrapper around all those messaging services. As Signal doesn't have a Web UI, Franz can't really easily support it. Yes, Signal-desktop is being rewritten to Electron now but I doubt it's suitable for in-Franz integration
- seaghost 9y agoElectron within electron.
- bjarkehs 9y agoHasn't been updated in a year though.
- drvortex 9y agoOh God. It's Trillian/Pidgin all over again.
- mixedCase 9y agoElectron for a messenger? What a wasted opportunity.
- peternicky 9y agoI've given Franz multiple chances over the past 1.5 years and always find that it is filled with bugs that make it a horrible experience. One example is a bug that crashes the app whenever the settings view is closed. Thanks for the poster who shared an open alternative, I will try it out later today.