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This way more exhaustive list was on the front-page just the other day. https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends https://github.com/mendel5/alternativ
by 3np 5y ago
This way more exhaustive list was on the front-page just the other day.
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620275
- dheera 5y agoI really wish there was one for WeChat that worked and didn't get you banned. These days they try to detect these alternative front ends and unfortunately if you get banned on WeChat that basically means you can't buy food, buy groceries, buy train tickets, reserve hotels, buy flight tickets, raise money, or a million other things. What's worse, if you get banned on WeChat people might even reject you socially because they think you're upto something illegal. It's a horrid way to force everyone into using their official client. I used to run WeChat in a virtual machine and remote access it, but now I just use a different phone for WeChat because the stakes are too high.
- gigglesupstairs 5y agoInteresting perspective. Are you in China?
- dheera 5y agoNot at this moment, but sometimes I am, and I would consider living there long term at some point, so I don't want to screw up the possibility of a future there.
- gigglesupstairs 5y agoThat makes sense considering how omnipresent wechat is there.
- ZyanWu 5y agoJust out of curiosity, why would you consider living there?
- 3np 5y agoNot as critical situation as WeChat, but otherwise I say the same about LINE.
- gaius_baltar 5y agoI think Facebook's wettest dream is to make WhatsApp into something like WeChat. At least in Brazil they are almost there.
- schleck8 5y agoI know this one, however I took a different approach here and chose to include only web frontends strictly (which means that there is less variety, but they all function similarly).