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Daily user of Beeper -- iMessage, Signal, Whatsapp, Matrix, Slack, and Facebook Messenger. The last thing I'd consider "buggy" was not being able to create text
by gintleman 3y ago
Daily user of Beeper -- iMessage, Signal, Whatsapp, Matrix, Slack, and Facebook Messenger. The last thing I'd consider "buggy" was not being able to create text groups, but that was solved within the last few months, and itself was just a missing feature. It's incredibly stable, in fact I've disabled the built in iMessage app on my iPhone and Mac for the last year with not one issue. Would highly recommend!
- sgu999 3y agoOh, very nice. I had no idea this was possible. I would be concerned about privacy though...
- cavemanklaus 3y agoJust looked into this and signed up, I'm 127,000 in queue for access, any chance you would be willing to help with a referral code?
- nunez 3y agoI had Beeper. It was a cool concept but also underscored my issue with today's chat platforms. For WhatsApp, Beeper needs to have an active session token on their servers that you approve via QR code. This is needed because WhatsApp doesn't have a public API and the only way they can grab messages is by scraping web.whatsapp.com. It's very similar to the approach that Spark (iOS Mail App) takes for connecting to Gmail (they hold refresh tokens server side). Will someone from Spark or Beeper read your messages on the sly? Probably not. But if their servers get compromised, someone else might, and that's a problem! In the Old Days, everything was username/password Basic Auth, and all of the chat platforms exposed some kind of an API. No need for an intermediate server to hold tokens on your behalf.