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Ripcord [1] is a (native) desktop chat client for Slack and Discord written in C++ and QT. It was posted a few months ago [2] and I’ve been using it since then

Ripcord [1] is a (native) desktop chat client for Slack and Discord written in C++ and QT. It was posted a few months ago [2] and I’ve been using it since then, it works great. [1] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699

deedubaya 7y ago
Looks neat. Definitely a developer-designed UI.
mtarnovan 7y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look. I tried https://volt-app.com https://volt-app.com a while ago but it had some bugs that made it unusable (for me) with Slack. I'm also a bit concerned of using a closed-source client with Slack.
- atombender 7y ago
  The Volt app actually looks in your browser files to steal its Slack login session cookie: https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/143 https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/143.
cat199 7y ago
interesting - they mention: "Slack connectivity is now available for testing. It's still pretty rough and missing a lot of features." any further insights here? could just try it myself, but slack is our key communication so getting more input would be great
- setr 7y ago
  I was also a little confused about this, because I vaguely remember slack locking down its API, and people complaining of the resulting inability for switching to a different, and possibly more efficiently implemented, UI
- pmarreck 7y ago
  can't comment on the original comment you made here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20500181 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20500181 because it's now flagged, so commenting here to state: There is a deafening irony in deplatforming a post arguing against deplatforming as a valid tactic. I hope it is not lost on the HN mods. ;)
  - dang 7y ago
    Bringing ideological battle into completely unrelated threads is definitely not ok. Please don't do this again. We want less ideological battle on HN, not more. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - pmarreck 7y ago
      It's not an "ideological battle" if it's empirical (based on evidence and rational discourse). The only "ideological battles" are religious in nature. I'm fine with keeping religion off HN, but you can't just call a contentious topic "ideological", especially if there is evidence and/or rational debate to be had. The fact that an insufficient number of people opt-in to discussing some topic in that way does not make it "ideological". Would you also consider conversation about climate change "ideological" and thus unworthy of HN? In any event, the original post (interestingly) got unflagged, so this was superfluous anyway.
- chocolatkey 7y ago
  I use ripcord for both slack and discord. Have not encountered any major slack-specific issues for the past half year I've been using ripcord
- rvz 7y ago
  I just tried Ripcord with an old Slack account and it seemed to be working fine. I've not encountered any issues on my end so far.

deedubaya 7y ago

Looks neat. Definitely a developer-designed UI.

mtarnovan 7y ago

Thanks, I'll take a look. I tried https://volt-app.com https://volt-app.com a while ago but it had some bugs that made it unusable (for me) with Slack. I'm also a bit concerned of using a closed-source client with Slack.

atombender 7y ago
The Volt app actually looks in your browser files to steal its Slack login session cookie: https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/143 https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/143.

cat199 7y ago

interesting - they mention: "Slack connectivity is now available for testing. It's still pretty rough and missing a lot of features." any further insights here? could just try it myself, but slack is our key communication so getting more input would be great

setr 7y ago
I was also a little confused about this, because I vaguely remember slack locking down its API, and people complaining of the resulting inability for switching to a different, and possibly more efficiently implemented, UI
pmarreck 7y ago
can't comment on the original comment you made here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20500181 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20500181 because it's now flagged, so commenting here to state: There is a deafening irony in deplatforming a post arguing against deplatforming as a valid tactic. I hope it is not lost on the HN mods. ;)
- dang 7y ago
  Bringing ideological battle into completely unrelated threads is definitely not ok. Please don't do this again. We want less ideological battle on HN, not more. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - pmarreck 7y ago
    It's not an "ideological battle" if it's empirical (based on evidence and rational discourse). The only "ideological battles" are religious in nature. I'm fine with keeping religion off HN, but you can't just call a contentious topic "ideological", especially if there is evidence and/or rational debate to be had. The fact that an insufficient number of people opt-in to discussing some topic in that way does not make it "ideological". Would you also consider conversation about climate change "ideological" and thus unworthy of HN? In any event, the original post (interestingly) got unflagged, so this was superfluous anyway.
chocolatkey 7y ago
I use ripcord for both slack and discord. Have not encountered any major slack-specific issues for the past half year I've been using ripcord
rvz 7y ago
I just tried Ripcord with an old Slack account and it seemed to be working fine. I've not encountered any issues on my end so far.