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chdir on May 21, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “I'm wiping this repository away”

I see a lot of interest in saving the repo/forks as archive, perhaps to revive it to some extent in the future. Wouldn't it be more constructive to build an open client that can compete with WhatsApp instead? Granted that it's hard, but definitely more fun than fighting legal notices and guessing hidden features that break the code occasionally.

zamalek on May 21, 2015 [–]

I believe that the Telegram (telegram.org) server is open source. There is also a publicly documented API.

Correction: the clients are open source.

chdir on May 21, 2015 | [–]

Thanks for reminding. I read about telegram a while back but forgot to try it out. Doing it now, hoping it'll have more friends over time.

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