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I never found any p2p app with similar user experience as WhatsApp. All people on this site brag of p2p and their technical prowness, yet no one has managed to
by tribesman 8y ago
I never found any p2p app with similar user experience as WhatsApp.
All people on this site brag of p2p and their technical prowness, yet no one has managed to build a killer p2p chat app. Disgusting!
Probably, they are still debating what programing language to use.
- askz 8y agoThe challenge is yours, then!
- tribesman 8y agoYea, but I've no skills to make one. I am willing to pay for one, £1 per month.
- nickik 8y agoMaybe because WhatsApp has billions to make sure everything works? Even the non-p2p open source apps are less polished. So really it has nothing to do with p2p at all.
- boramalper 8y agoHave you tried Matrix? https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/
- chr15m 8y agoMatrix is a great project! I believe it uses a federated model which means that it relies on people donating their servers and bandwidth and messages pass through those federated servers rather than directly between peers as with WebRTC.
- veli_joza 8y agoI find WhatsApp user experience lacking and I wouldn't use it if my friends and contacts weren't all there. It's decent platform for simple sentences and trading emojis/memes I guess.
- chr15m 8y agoThanks for your feedback! I agree, WhatsApp is an amazing piece of software with a great user interface & UX. There are significant computer science challenges when building peer-to-peer software that are much easier to solve when building a centralized system. This may be the reason that people seem to "brag" when they create something p2p - because it is difficult to do - and it may also be the reason why there has not been in your opinion "a killer p2p chat app" yet. One great thing about WebTorrent is that it makes building p2p software for the web much easier. They have done a great job!