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Is it just me, or does anyone else get a little put off by phrases like "for all major web services."

Who decided which web services are major? There are certainly a number of "major" services that aren't included depending on how major is really defined.

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I don't know. I think it's easily understandable what they meant by "major". Like, you've heard and probably used, every single one of the services listed there.

This is not an official definition of the word "major", it's just a list of services the client is compatible with. They're not insulting a race/religion/nationality, it's just a list of web services you have probably used.

It's more so the "all" that I was talking about.

Ah I see, that's actually a fair point.

Major meaning that they're recognisable brand names and used by many companies/individuals perhaps?

Slack, Skype, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord. You've definitely heard of at least one of them.

Major makes sense to me. All, less so.

Yikes, populism.

What GP is describing is not populism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

I don't particularly care whether I am right. It is what it is. The point was understood.

"for all major web services" sounds a lot better than "the web services we like using", and the only two things I'd consider missing are IRC/steam, and with IRC going the way of the dodo and steam not being a super popular messaging service.

Reports of IRC's death have been greatly exaggerated.

I don't game much anymore but I always keep Steam up to date so I can talk to that one friend who only uses Steam chat...

Steam support probably wouldn't even make a whole lot of sense, since users likely use it for their game library rather than just a messaging service. Unless this app wants to branch out and start competing with game library managers like Playnite.

I imagine that list is decided by the Patreon supporters.

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