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I'm sorry to say that but... have you actually tried GNU Ring? It is the least usable IM-thingy I've ever tried. I tried it in 3 different plaforms (OSX, Andro

I'm sorry to say that but... have you actually tried GNU Ring? It is the least usable IM-thingy I've ever tried. I tried it in 3 different plaforms (OSX, Android, Linux) and in every case I found (different) experience-breaking bugs (>30min to find a contact, registration timeouts, missing GUI buttons, and so on). Also, you can have multiple devices connected but not all messages will reach all devices, and of course an offline device will not receive messages sent since it was last online. I really wanted to like it and push for it, but I just can't in its state :(

ZoomZoomZoom 9y ago
Yeah, it's far from perfect, and I wasn't saying it's ready for prime time. However, it's a much more complex piece of engineering, being a P2P messenger. I'm impressed with the development even considering all the bugs.
tripzilch 9y ago
Matrix/Riot.im works pretty well. It's a bit of a hassle getting the devices verified[0], and (imho) a bit unintuitive about how it shows contacts, chats and rooms. But it works. [0] Tip: name the devices and remove any you don't recognize, I just have three devices with Riot.im installed but during setup some others appeared, maybe duplicates or a web session, I got rid of those. Less devices is less verifications.