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Adopt NeoChat!

https://apps.kde.org/neochat/

This chat client works on both your desktop and phone and will let you communicate over the free and de-centralized and secure Matrix instant messaging platform.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

@kde @kde how I wish Neochat had a full implementation of E2EE. I (and probably several others) would happily make the switch from Element.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There are two ways of getting features into KDE apps that work better than wishing 😉 :

  1. contributing to our fundraiser, or donating to the project, or whatever. That is, providing the developers with means to get stuff done, either by buying them time so they can spend it on developing, or hiring help. If you are on this thread it is because you are doing this, or considering doing this, or whatever, so we can assume you already know about this.

  2. contributing with your know-how. Check out our get involved page, as it describes in detail how you can help with the implementation the things NeoChat needs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Libquotient just added cross-signing support, which works in Neochat if it's build against the new version. I'm not sure what else was missing from E2EE support.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Shouldn't the mascot be a cat with sunglasses and a lather coat?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are two ways of getting features into KDE in a speedy fashion :

  1. contributing to our fundraiser, or donating to the project, or whatever. That is, providing the developers with means to get stuff done, either by buying them time so they can spend it on developing, or hiring help. If you are on this thread it is because you are doing this, or considering doing this, or whatever, so we can assume you already know about this.

  2. contributing with your know-how. Check out our get involved page, as it describes in detail how you can help with the implementation the things NeoChat needs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That didn’t answer the question. Is there an answer to this question, or a way to find the answer? I don’t see any way to see Feature Requests for NeoChat. Only instructions for submitting PRs.

EDIT: Found it in the KDE Bug Tracker - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466606

[–] anzo 1 points 1 week ago

There are two ways to getting answers, and apparently neither involves the copying and pasting the mod of the community is doing xD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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Friendly suggestion - it might be a good idea to link to a longer explanation, esp. around the E2EE, here :)

"everything in the current stable specification with the notable exceptions of VoIP, threads and some aspects of End-to-End Encryption are supported"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] I can't get it to run on Android reliably (although I'd love to). YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Does it do regular SMS? If you say yes, then my next question will be, does it do RCS? Or is that monopolized by Google? Because I'd extremely happy to leave Google's shitty messenger.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

@penquin @kde NeoChat is a Matrix-only client to my knowledge, it has nothing to do with SMS/RCS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

@[email protected] Technically, you could use a Beeper account (or another homeserver with mautrix-gmessages set up) with NeoChat, but that's not guaranteed to work by either side.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Is the F-Droid version abandoned? It crashes on startup on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] alphapuggle 5 points 1 week ago

You can download the exe for free. The price is a donation + offsetting the cost to publish apps to the Microsoft store

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

for such an amazing product, that's a steal! 🤩