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too bad it's not open-source, unlike http://rambox.pro/

I love RamBox - and hope it continues to gain momentum. Really wish someone would add Spell Check support.

Just tried Rambox. It's good, very convenient.

It doesn't seem to support Open Whisper Systems Signal messaging app. Did I miss it in the list, or is there some other reason why it's not included?

Franz is basically a browser wrapper around all those messaging services. As Signal doesn't have a Web UI, Franz can't really easily support it.

Yes, Signal-desktop is being rewritten to Electron now but I doubt it's suitable for in-Franz integration

Oh God. It's Trillian/Pidgin all over again.

I've given Franz multiple chances over the past 1.5 years and always find that it is filled with bugs that make it a horrible experience. One example is a bug that crashes the app whenever the settings view is closed.

Thanks for the poster who shared an open alternative, I will try it out later today.

I would call it "A messenger" at all only if it had history search that spanned services.

I often remember I got a message from X about Y but to find it I have to look independently in whatsapp, iMessage, email and 2 bulletin board style systems.

Is this this functionally different from Pidgin and other libpurple based messengers?

Yes, but maybe not in a good way -- this is basically just a tabbed electron wrapper around various chat webapps.

I'm pretty sure this one brings all of their various Electron and web app versions under one app and shares the Chromium runtime among them, while Pidgin and libpurple would be based on accessing their APIs directly

Electron for a messenger? What a wasted opportunity.

Electron within electron.

Hasn't been updated in a year though.

This is awesome!

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