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LinkSpace
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Beautiful user interface
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Custom color themes
Profiles can have their own colors which are reproduced on Discover feed too
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Very intuitive
I agree... The user interface is very similar to the old Twitter but a lot more modern...
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Hidden likes numbers
There are no counters next to like buttons... Saving me tons of anxiety
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Lemmy
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Federated
Anyone can self-host the software on their own server. Users can join an instance they like. You can view and comment on other servers (instances) as long as the instance you are on hasn't blocked the other instance.
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Pro-CCP, Chinese censorship and concentration camp deniers
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Simple and fast interface
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Complicated to use
Some find it quite difficult to use. As each instance is seperate, it take a lot to get used to using it.
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Open-source
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Slow and unreliable
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Shows both number of upvotes and number of downvotes, not just total
If someone has some unpopular opinion you can still see some people upvoted it and therefore appreciated it (so you can decide to read it).
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A community of leftist privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers
Politically biased platform, that they seem to be proud of.
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Problematic instances can be blocked
If the moderation of a certain instance is not good, other instances can block it.
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A rich ecosystem of third party clients and software
See the awesome lemmy github repo.
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Facebook
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Self-censored
In a way because social platforms show you what seems most relevant to you, you may end up not seeing things that are important; a kind of self-censoring.
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Anyone can post
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Actively repress 1st amendment rights of americans despite being an american company
Violations of our highest laws is not acceptable behavior.
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Known cases of censoring
Facebook had cases of censoring content, pro Conservative US party for example.
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Will censor and ban you if you post anything that goes against government approved narrative
Even if you are posting truth and facts.
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Reddit
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"For hire" posts get a lot of attention
Where many of the current remote job boards are specifically for employees looking to apply to positions, reddit is a good place to post "for hire" ads and allow the employers to contact you.
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Not specifically a job board
Reddit is not specifically a job board, so may lack some of the features you're looking for (such as a strong search feature).
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Variety of freelance and salaried positions
There is a good variety of job types so you're able to find what fits your schedule and lifestyle best.
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tildes.net
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Inconsistent moderation
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Can show comments that were not read
When visiting a post, it can show you comments added since the last visit, this can make it easier to read all the comments on a post you care about.
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Has a "Exemplary" label for labeling high quality content
You can only label one every eight hours, so it acts kind of like a "super upvote".
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Stern Moderation
Cyberbullies are warned and removed from the forum the moment they display patterns of harassment or vicious behavior. It's not about the topics or opinions, it's about communicating like an intelligent person rather than a troll.
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Rocket.Chat
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Free and open source
Rocket.Chat is available for free. It's licensed under the MIT license with source code available on GitHub.
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Developer support is non-existent
Can't even create a clean Ubuntu VM with a working developer install. Unresolved dependencies; fails to build. Docs are terrible; actual devs don't respond to questions; error messages are near-opaque. DO NOT RECOMMEND.
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Native apps for all major desktop and mobile platforms
Rocket.Chat has native apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
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Web client loses images
In chat rooms with images, before very long, images start to become empty boxes. Useless to pass around visual information
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Supports a wide variety of authentication methods
In addition to the usual email / username + password combination, Rocket.Chat supports authenticating via Facebook, Github, Gitlab, Google, Linkedin, Meteor and Twitter accounts.
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No theme customization
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Understands markdown better than Slack does.
Links work properly, for instance, with square brackets followed by parentheses.
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No chat audit for enterprise
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Very active and helpful community
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Poor security implementations / protocols
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Video conferencing support
Rocket.Chat supports video calls.
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Centralized
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iOS app is poorly made
The iOS application is not native, being just a browser container. This means that the UX is quite poor, slow, buttons unresponsive. At this moment they do not provide a decent experience.
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Android app is poorly made
The Android application is just a badly wrapped web-view which does not perform well and has no form of offline caching whatsoever.
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Privacy settings are absent
Privacy settings for the server are absent, for instance, you don't have the ability to disable registrations, there's no way to control access to the chat.
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Features not available out of the box
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No web browser support
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Email required for registration
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No way to block new registrations
Without the ability to disable registrations, there's no way to control access to the chat.
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Platforms:
Web iOS Android OSX Windows Linux
License:
M.I.T.
Hosting options:
On premises & On Rocket.Chat
Videoconferencing:
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Quora
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No customization options
There is no way of making your Quora blog different from any other Quora blog. It is only an extension of your Quora profile.
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Tags help promote your content
When you tag your blog post, it will show up in feeds of people following that topic.
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Community interested in learning
Quora has a built-in audience interested in learning new things.
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Medium
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Clean, beautiful pages
Medium has clean, minimalist pages with pictures and great typography.
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Medium can use your content however they want
Your content can be used royalty-free by Medium according to their Terms of Service.
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Excellent readability
There are no distractions and with a clean layout and great typography, reading Medium articles is a pleasure.
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Not self-hostable
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Zero setup required
As soon as you sign-up for the service, you are ready to start writing.
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Cannot customise domain address
From April 2018, Medium has removed the ability to set a customised domain on new accounts.
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Clean writing experience
Medium takes away all the clutter without taking away any necessary features for a better writing experience. And it doesn't require knowing Markdown to write, all tools are WYSIWYG.
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Proprietary
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Great inbound channels to acquire bigger audiences quickly
Has a great network based on tags and search for "Suggest an article" as a similar read to others and for specific categories. Allows you a much bigger audience quicker than most platforms.
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Limited customization options
In order to create a dead simple way to use the service, possibility to customize your blog was sacrificed. Medium publications, however, do allow a limited amount of customization.
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Unintrusive yet powerful community interaction
Allows for finding new, related content.
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Non-intuitive, non-threaded comment system
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Great post editor
A WYSIWYG editor that does not get in the way at all. It is invisible most of the time and only appears when you select something.
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Freemium philosophy
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Bookmarking
Medium allows bookmarking articles and following collections as well as users.
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Export is limited
The only export option is HTML. If you want to migrate away from Medium for some reason, it might be very difficult to do so.
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Paragraph based commenting
As Medium encourages long-form writing they've re-imagined how comments should work accordingly. You can leave comments for every paragraph separately, so you don't have to reference a specific part in a comments section at the bottom. Technically, the feature is called "notes."
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Recommendation system
Intended for appreciating a post, allows easier discoverability of an article by other readers.
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Photo upload and display is aesthetically pleasing
If you post photos as part of your blog, the interface on Medium is one of the best for both inline uploading as well as display in the post itself.
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Built-in analytics
Medium shows how many people have opened your post and how many have read through it. And how many people have recommended your post.
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Collaborative if you want it to be
You can send a draft out to other people and have them edit and leave notes on it.
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Google Analytics support
They can enable this for you upon request.
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Excellent Post editor
With so many built-in features and flexibility to use, I would recommend Medium first amongst all.
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Telegram
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Free and convenient large file sharing
Copy/paste videos, gifs, images, geolocation, documents, and even executable files. Drag over files for practically any time up to 2GB in size. Images can be compressed, too.
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Not fully open source
Telegram has an open API and protocol free for everyone, but the backend software is not open source. Therefore 100% privacy can not be evaluated.
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Free of cost
The application is available free of cost.
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Can only be used with a phone number
It is not possible to activate and use Telegram by mail etc. You need a phone number.
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Privacy focused
In addition to the end-to-end encryption [only in secret chats] that provides privacy to communications, the app also includes self destructing timers for chats, and the ability to permanently delete messages, yours and theirs, from your and their devices.
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Only "Secret Chat" messages are encrypted end to end
The only way to get end-to-end encryption (client-client) using Telegram is to use the Secret Chat function, anything through the service is server-client encrypted. Also secret chat is only implemented in the mobile apps, meaning there is no way to encrypt messages end-to-end when using the desktop client or the web browser client.
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Media messaging
Videos, gifs, images, geolocation, and documents.
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"Secret Chat" feature is not available for desktop client
Secret chats with end to end encryption are only available on mobile apps.
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Channels for one way broadcasting
Broadcasting channels suitable for announcing things.
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No source code sintax highlighting
Telegram does not have source code syntax highlighting, making it difficult to share code snippets.
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Beautiful UI
Very customizable with a lot of clean looking options.
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Does not work for visually impaired
Doesn't work for visually impaired.
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Possible to send photos and videos without compression
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Does not support spherical 360° photos
Spherical 360° photos becoming more popular these days, but Telegram does not support such format.
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Supergroups of up to 200,000 people
In Supergroups, anyone along with admins can delete their messages from all sides. A message can be pinned to the top. All of the user's messages can be deleted by an administrator, and they can be banned and reported as well. Supergroups can have a public link (outside of Asia, due to high spam volumes), which is also a username.
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Does not support text messaging
You can NOT make it your default text messaging App.
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Two-step verification
You can set up an additional password to your account, which can be reset by your email. You don't have to use an email if you do not want to. If you lose access to your email or forget your password, you will be able to reset it via text message if your account is over seven days old and will receive it within a week (in case you recover anything before then).
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Secure
Telegram uses an open source MTProto encryption protocol that provides complete end-to-end encryption for secret chats. To show off their confidence in the protocol the company behind Telegram has organized $200,000 and $300,000 challenges to break the encryption. So far there have been no winners.
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Saved messages
You can write messages to yourself. You can write some notes, add links, and see everything across all your devices.
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Cloud chat keys are kept in different jurisdiction
Even though encryption used for cloud-based storage (e.g. Gmail, Facebook, iCloud) may not be as secure as end-to-end encryption or zero-knowledge storage, Telegram does the most that it can by holding keys to chats in different jurisdictions, requiring intergovernmental cooperation to obtain the keys. This is aside from whatever other security measures have been taken, of course.
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Multiplatform native client apps
There are native desktop, mobile and web client apps, that are optimized for speed and are light on memory usage.
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Open source client apps
Client apps are open source, making whole service more trustworthy.
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Unlimited storage
Unlimited number of files can be stored forever on the cloud. You can upload files up to 1.5 GB each.
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Voice and video messages
You can post voice and video messages if you are too lazy to write text messages.
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Group Voice Chat
This Discord-like feature adds to the interactivity of the application.
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Pinned Messages
You can pin messages to the top of groups or supergroups so members will see them when opening the group.
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Self-destruct messages
Messages in individual chats can be set to self destruct on a timer. They will disappear after the timer expires. Messages in all new chats can be set to self-destruct with a global auto-delete timer in Settings > Privacy and Security > Auto-Delete Messages.
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Edit or delete messages after sending them
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Banned in China
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Save time with inline bots and link previews
Unfortunately, on the desktop videos don't play, but images are viewable without visiting popular websites like imgur and Instagram. You can play YouTube videos and others within the app, so you don't need to embed code or anything. With inline bots, such as @gif, @pic/bing, @vid/YouTube, etc, you can look things up without leaving the client or chat that you're in. Simply type the name and some keywords and wait for the results to load.
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@mentions
You can ping people to get their attention by @mentioning them.
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Desktop app handles HiDPI
The desktop app has a built in setting to scale the UI of the app up to 200% which allows for those with 4k monitors/screens to use the app without scaling issues.
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High quality calls
Uses the latest GPL audio codecs, such as Opus, an adaptative high-quality codec that supersedes AAC at any bitrate.
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Customer support is within the app
Although it's volunteer based, but still pretty top-notch if available, which it tends to be.
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Large groups can have channels called 'Topics'
Topics are now available in groups of 100+ members and have a sleek two-column layout and new buttons to quickly navigate. A default topic called General is now in every topic group, holding the group’s service messages and previous message history.
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Popular in the USA
On SimilarWeb you can see that Telegram is on the top 15 among all communication apps.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows phone, UWP
Publisher:
Various companies affiliated with Telegram
File Size:
2048 MB
End-to-end encryption:
Secret chats
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IRC
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Complex and not user friendly
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Open protocol
The IRC protocol is public and open, it is mature and stable, and has been implemented in numerous projects. This means that it can be used freely, for both open-source and commercial projects.
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Assumes some level of prior knowledge
The features are not discoverable the way they are in other apps and services.
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Versatile
IRC offers choice. Choice in clients (mobile, desktop, web), in scripts those clients run, in servers and features those servers have. You can even set up your own server.
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You have to "idle" to see what's going on
You will see a blank chat screen at first because there is no recent history kept on servers.
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Less distracting
Compared to other common solutions, IRC can be ignored when you are occupied doing something else. Most clients don't pester you with sounds or distracting visuals.
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Can be addictive
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Mentions
Every notable IRC client supports mentions - notifying you when your name is mentioned in the chat. The mentions in IRC are comparably better than Discord. Mentions used in Discord are easily abused; this doesn't happen in IRC. If someone's talking about you, you get a notification in IRC. This doesn't happen in something like Discord.
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Poor multimedia support
Sending anything besides text is not easy or intuitive and depends on the client.
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Hundreds of avaliable clients
IRC has been around since 1988, so there is a ton of existing software to work with it. Everything from clients, to chat bots, to bouncers is already built.
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Advanced functionality is client-dependant
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IRC networks are not centralized
You can choose your favorite server for an IRC network.
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No account necessary
No need to sign up for access, confirm your e-mail address. Just choose a nickname and you're done.
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User-friendly
IRC is user friendly if you use something like hexchat or kiwi webchat.
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DCC
Direct Client-to-Client allows users to share files in a similar way to torrenting.
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Great historic importance
Twitter hashtags came from IRC channel names.
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Upcoming IRCv3 will provide missing features
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Platforms:
Web iOS Android WP OSX Windows Linux
Hosting options:
Hosted & self-hosted
Service integrations:
No
Screensharing:
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Snapchat
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Security concerns
In 2013, Snapchat was hacked. As a result phone numbers and usernames of 4.6 million users were published online. That happened after concerns were raised by a security firm weeks before that Snapchat dismissed. Other security concerns were pointed out to Snapchat throughout 2014 including ways that the service could be used for DDOS attacks and how their anti-robot measures can be circumvented. Snapchat has since implemented two-factor authentication.
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Allows sharing photos, videos and texts that self-destruct
All Snapchat communications disappear after they've been viewed. It creates more interesting conversation when you don't have to worry about consequences as much. Additionally you can doodle on photos.
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Non-intuitive UI
The UI space is well used but you'll likely miss a few messages until you understand of the UI works; it's not like the average mobile apps.
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Includes news
Snapchat includes a Discover page (accessed by two swipes from the right side) where curated list of news and entertainment outlets can put up news from their sites.
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Does not get in the way of what it's designed to do
Snapchat is first and foremost a way to share photos so the first thing that the app presents the user with is the camera enabled and ready to take photos. Once photos or videos are taken, it's possible to caption them or draw on them.
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Platforms:
Android / iOS
Publisher:
Snapchat Inc
File Size:
17M
Required Android Version:
4.0 and up
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Instagram
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Good platform for exposure
Instagram is the photo sharing app with the most users.
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Awkward framing
Photos shot in Instagram must be in a square format. Uploaded photos must be cropped to be square shaped.
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Great photo filters
Instagram's adjustable filters can completely change the way a photo looks.
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Filled with children
Instagram is extremely popular with middle school and high school kids.
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Tons of editing tools
Instagram lets users adjust brightness, temperature, saturation, highlights, shadows, and sharpening.
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