Agree with you here. I thought the article made some good points but I've also been bitten by the "naive" [mix, max] slider you describe - I did yearn for some good old text boxes back then!
Not sure I get the logic here. Will they be fined next for showing the Google Maps embed (and street view) when you search for places nearby? What's the difference?
The thing that makes me use Telegram more than Whatapp are the desktop clients[1] and the flawless desktop-mobile integration. Works better than any other chat platform out there, IMHO.
Sure! :) The backend is basically just Redis and Amazon! (S3 for storing the files, a Lambda function to convert webm into mp4 and gif).
Client side, it's using WebSockets, RecordRTC for the video capture and Service Workers for the push notification bit.
Hi everyone! I made typr.club as an experiment to build some kind of 'augmented' chat room, where people could transmit their presence, emotions, reactions... by attaching a short video to their text messages.
It works with rooms, you can just create one by appending whatever to the URL. It has some other features like converting all your messages to GIFs (memes alert!!), integrating with Slack and it can send you web push notifications on activity, if you wish to Subscribe to a room. More info/code here: https://github.com/ruiramos/typr.club