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Imustaskforhelpyesterday at 9:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

Fascinating.

I am seeing that you are writing a matrix client UI basically which is nice but I am interested if its possible that you could write it in (agnostic?) UI way if if it makes sense, where I can swap out any other protocol instead of matrix too

I was just interested in something similar once and there are other protocols like session,simplex,signal etc. too which I feel like can definitely benefit from an unified UI perhaps

Personally I am always interested if any messaging app should just create a cli application/api and have someone else create the UI since I feel like the UI bugs and similar can definitely be fixed if its not in house.

I am curious of your opinion regarding it but the project looks cool!

Personally although I can enjoy telegram's UI, nothing beats cinny's UI ever.

Cinny has the best UI of any messaging app I have ever seen personally, there are only very few things I wish to change in that, which can be changed via userstyle and even recent modern element feels good to me personally but cinny is brilliant overall

So I am interested to hear what your thoughts are on cinny too (cinny.in)


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adiksoyesterday at 8:35 PM

I needed a simple chat UI for a diy "SMS gateway" (for an extra [nearly free] phone number used only to receive SMS - mainly for registrations and deliveries) and I ended up using Delta Chat that uses your email server under the hood. So I implemented all the logic based on emails... but it would be much better to have some nice looking UI with easy integration.

prmoustacheyesterday at 11:50 AM

Basically pidgin but with telegram's UI.

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