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It's unfortunate that this focuses on mobile. Messaging on mobile is a solved problem mostly. It's the desktop that stopped getting its unique treatment 10 year

It's unfortunate that this focuses on mobile. Messaging on mobile is a solved problem mostly. It's the desktop that stopped getting its unique treatment 10 years ago. At this point every single desktop IM app looks like a tablet app in a window. And it's always a single window, too.

the_gipsy 4y ago
> Messaging on mobile is a solved problem mostly. It's obviously improvable. My chat apps (whatsapp, telegram, element) on my iPhone only have a few of the exposed features.
Spivak 4y ago
Discord, discord, discord, discord. But for real though it's the only app doing any kind of innovation in the space. My friends and I switched to it from GroupMe and by god the absolute power. Channels, per channel notifications, sane mentions, reactions that aren't awkward, threads, actually useful bots, screen sharing, voice chatrooms that don't suck, spoilers, embeds, nsfw tagged channels, real formatting, really fast search, channel topics, pinned messages.
- solarmist 4y ago
  I use it to rate limit myself to not flood someone with texts.
- deleted 4y ago
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bonestamp2 4y ago
> it's always a single window, too What do you mean... you want a separate window for the list of contacts, or a separate window for each chat, etc?
- grishka 4y ago
  Yes, I want a separate window for the chat/contact list, and I want a tabbed chat window so I could keep the chats I'm actively engaged with at the moment open and easily accessible instead of having to hunt them down in the chat list every time I switch between them. Seemingly every desktop IM app in the 00s did implement some form of this, but then touchscreen phones and tablets happened. I also want things that don't have to be modals, like profiles, to not be modals. Again, this ain't a phone where you can only have one view controller on the screen at a time. I also want the media viewer to not take over my entire screen but be a regular window that plays nicely with the rest of my desktop.

the_gipsy 4y ago

> Messaging on mobile is a solved problem mostly. It's obviously improvable. My chat apps (whatsapp, telegram, element) on my iPhone only have a few of the exposed features.

Spivak 4y ago

Discord, discord, discord, discord. But for real though it's the only app doing any kind of innovation in the space. My friends and I switched to it from GroupMe and by god the absolute power. Channels, per channel notifications, sane mentions, reactions that aren't awkward, threads, actually useful bots, screen sharing, voice chatrooms that don't suck, spoilers, embeds, nsfw tagged channels, real formatting, really fast search, channel topics, pinned messages.

solarmist 4y ago
I use it to rate limit myself to not flood someone with texts.
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bonestamp2 4y ago

> it's always a single window, too What do you mean... you want a separate window for the list of contacts, or a separate window for each chat, etc?

grishka 4y ago
Yes, I want a separate window for the chat/contact list, and I want a tabbed chat window so I could keep the chats I'm actively engaged with at the moment open and easily accessible instead of having to hunt them down in the chat list every time I switch between them. Seemingly every desktop IM app in the 00s did implement some form of this, but then touchscreen phones and tablets happened. I also want things that don't have to be modals, like profiles, to not be modals. Again, this ain't a phone where you can only have one view controller on the screen at a time. I also want the media viewer to not take over my entire screen but be a regular window that plays nicely with the rest of my desktop.