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Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks. (blog.beeper.com)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now.

The convenience of having an application to house all of your chat networks is amazing.

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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (16 children)

Pidgin. That failed. Then we have matrix. That kinda failed. And now beeper?

I don't know..

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    Why do you feel like matrix has failed? I joined it recently and to me it looks like it’s kinda growing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well.. I said 'kinda failed'. Synapse is still way too slow. And the new dendrite server is still not up to spec. Joining large rooms is still gives me a headache. I can't easily protect DDoS or spam accounts. I was forced to basically close registrations my Matrix server. And Dendrite is not yet production ready which is a shame.. Don't get me wrong, I do like Matrix in general. I just hope my previous remarks are taken seriously by their devs.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How did Matrix fail?

    It's the base for numerous messengers used by governments around the world, it has a userbase of more than 70 million core users (not counting the various closed messengers). Various competitors (e.g. Rocket Chat) have changed their base to Matrix.

    And Beeper is Matrix with Bridges (which you absolutely could deploy yourself). In theory anyone could recreate the Beeper functionality with existing other apps/bridges AND be able to communicate with Beeper on their native standard - Matrix.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    ow lame.. It's non-free??

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Double lame..!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Pidgin didn't use bridges, it tried to be "all the possible clients in one"... with closed source protocols... which went south, fast. It still works for some, though.

    Matrix is running just fine, it doesn't have the infinite flexibility of XMPP which made XMPP clients incompatible with each other, so as long as it doesn't jump the shark, it's just a matter of time to drive adoption.

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