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0 pointsdavewongillies10y ago0 comments

Franz is the closest I've seen to that recently: http://www.meetfranz.com/. It supports Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, Skype amongst others.

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dindresto10y ago

What's the value of it though? It's just a bunch of webviews. I can accomplish the same with opening the web versions in my browser.

tdkl10y ago

Not having to navigate to the browser, no fear of accidentally closing the browser, no tracking cookies set in the browser, native notifications.

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dindresto10y ago

What's the value of it though? It's just a bunch of webviews. I can accomplish the same with opening the web versions in my browser.

tdkl10y ago

Not having to navigate to the browser, no fear of accidentally closing the browser, no tracking cookies set in the browser, native notifications.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse