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That argument would hold more power if there wasn't an existing native client for Slack and Discord, made by one person, with all the features I needed, working

That argument would hold more power if there wasn't an existing native client for Slack and Discord, made by one person, with all the features I needed, working with absolutely no lag and minimal resource use, working on MacOS, Linux and Windows. Did this 3rd party app have 100% feature parity with the original Discord/Slack app the moment new features came out? If not, what was the time delta between the two? Why didn't the author continue development? It seems like it was on sale for $20? Surely because people value native app so much that he would have made more than enough money to continue development?

viraptor 3y ago
Can't speak for the author. I haven't seen the reasoning. The awareness of the app wasn't that great though. I only found out it existed right as Slack changed the organisation token/auth which never got fully implemented in Ripcord. There was only one post that got lots of attention on HN and that was before the pandemic. (With a pretty good reception, mostly around being light/not-electron https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699) Can't speak to the feature compatibility completely, but testing it over a week or so I've not found anything missing at the time. I think the video calls got added after the development stopped and that never arrived. Then Discord started banning third party / differently behaving clients, so that part got dangerous.
- aurareturn 3y ago
  It did get good feedback on HN. Most people here love native apps. But the real question is, did people here actually support the developer and buy the app? My guess is no. There weren't enough people who wanted to pay $20 for it. That should tell you how much people actually value native for this category of apps.

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That argument would hold more power if there wasn't an existing native client for Slack and Discord, made by one person, with all the features I needed, working

by aurareturn 3y ago

viraptor 3y ago
Can't speak for the author. I haven't seen the reasoning. The awareness of the app wasn't that great though. I only found out it existed right as Slack changed the organisation token/auth which never got fully implemented in Ripcord. There was only one post that got lots of attention on HN and that was before the pandemic. (With a pretty good reception, mostly around being light/not-electron https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699) Can't speak to the feature compatibility completely, but testing it over a week or so I've not found anything missing at the time. I think the video calls got added after the development stopped and that never arrived. Then Discord started banning third party / differently behaving clients, so that part got dangerous.
- aurareturn 3y ago
  It did get good feedback on HN. Most people here love native apps. But the real question is, did people here actually support the developer and buy the app? My guess is no. There weren't enough people who wanted to pay $20 for it. That should tell you how much people actually value native for this category of apps.