<story><title>Wire open-sourced</title><url>https://github.com/wireapp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deltaprotocol</author><text>I must say that my first impression is beyond positive.&lt;p&gt;One to one and group chats, group video and audio calls, GIF search built-in, doodles, the best implementation of photos in the message stream that I&amp;#x27;ve seen, poking and playable Spotify and Soundcloud music by just sharing links? All with end-to-end encryption?&lt;p&gt;I have that &amp;quot;too good to be true&amp;quot; feeling but, still impressed. Just waiting for possible audits and more feedback from the security community.&lt;p&gt;Edit: It&amp;#x27;s also Switzerland based, already supports Win10, MacOS, Web, Android and iOS, and to complete has the cleanest design I&amp;#x27;ve seen in a messaging app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unicornporn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using it with friends and family for awhile on Android and macOS and it&amp;#x27;s fantastic, in theory. It has however been plagued with lots of bugs. The calling functionality, which I&amp;#x27;ve used a lot, often stalls at &amp;quot;joining&amp;quot; and then nothing happens. It&amp;#x27;s not as polished or flawless as Telegram. It does not have a feature to compress video before sending for instance. But I can only expect that to change. Especially now, when anyone can write their own client.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wire open-sourced</title><url>https://github.com/wireapp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deltaprotocol</author><text>I must say that my first impression is beyond positive.&lt;p&gt;One to one and group chats, group video and audio calls, GIF search built-in, doodles, the best implementation of photos in the message stream that I&amp;#x27;ve seen, poking and playable Spotify and Soundcloud music by just sharing links? All with end-to-end encryption?&lt;p&gt;I have that &amp;quot;too good to be true&amp;quot; feeling but, still impressed. Just waiting for possible audits and more feedback from the security community.&lt;p&gt;Edit: It&amp;#x27;s also Switzerland based, already supports Win10, MacOS, Web, Android and iOS, and to complete has the cleanest design I&amp;#x27;ve seen in a messaging app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Andrenid</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using it for a while just with 1 other friend who has it, and it&amp;#x27;s without a doubt my favourite IM as far as interface&amp;#x2F;functionality&amp;#x2F;etc.&lt;p&gt;As usual it&amp;#x27;s just the matter of getting other people to use it. Everyone I know just uses FB Messenger or Telegram now.</text></comment>