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Sounds super-awesome. And it's a space that needs innovation. But you should change your name fast. There's another company out there with a kind of similar name that's somewhat hot right now. ;-) I was genuinely wondering, even though I knew it could not be true, if this was related to the electric car company.

We just love Nikola Tesla :) When we named our app after Nikola Tesla, it somehow made us want to deliver a more than awesome app. BTW, Tesla Motors rocks.

Friend, truly, this is a mistake and you should change the name.

Maybe name it 'Nikola' or 'Nikola Chat'.

They claim AES 256-bit encryption, and yet when I go through debug and networking logging they clearly only encrypt messages with regular SSL - so what does it mean when they say they encrypt? Just that they may store the messages encrypted? Which is unlikely if they have "near-realtime search" considering how difficult it is to implement searching over encrypted data.

Their SSL negotiates AES256, so they're technically correct?

I think they are saying the communications are encrypted, not the data on the server.

Which is not really that impressive, it's becoming standard to ENCRYPT ALL THE THINGS!!!1 in social apps. But the way they said it did confuse me as well.

Can you please add integration for gchat and pidgin?

Convincing everyone to adopt a new chat client will be tricky for me, so I would like to give the team options to keep using what they have.

If everyone wants to keep using what they have why would you be thinking about using this service?

Love the tech, but the design is spectacular. I'm one to get turned off pretty quickly if things aren't obvious/well-designed, but this is the exact opposite. Kudos.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5726010

How is this better than IRC?

Why a new chat service? How is this better than Skype, Campfire etc?

Skype? Assuming, for a moment, that that is an entirely serious suggestion; you should perhaps look at an article I found as the top hit from a relatively simple Google search: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14915

And "tesla.im" are more trustworthy than Microsoft? Based on what evidence?

No, the messages are not encrypted, they are only passed over SSL to prevent people in the middle from getting the messages - just as Skype does... but Tesla or possibly Firebase can still read your messages if they wanted to. So you'd be just as at-risk using Tesla as you are using Skype or Google Hangouts (previous Talk).

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