I always liked their UX, and never noticed any outright bugs?

But, yeah, definitely dislike the Spyware - I recall having to adb shell into the device and manually disable those processes after each update.

Shame they include that, their devices are (otherwise) really great.

Its latest commit is from 4 days ago, so it looks like work is still ongoing.

It's odd, but not unheard of for open source applications to have large windows between releases. They just might not have a reason to bump major versions, at the moment.

If you want the commits since 2022, you can always install a dev build from github.

You: [ copy pastes link ]

Others: Hey, can you also tell us what that link points towards?

You: wHaT iS tHiS, a BoLsHeViK LaBoR CaMp?

You know what you sounded like.

It's a small text addition for context, not a big ask. Most of these upgrade posts in this community have people asking the same thing, so they can discover new software.

Ultimately, though, it's your choice.

I use Navidrome myself, and I still think it would be nice for people to know a little bit about the software in an update announcement post.

Seems like a very reasonable request, I don't grok the vitriol in your response.

Same here, my dude... Same here. Why does my back suddenly hurt?

Steam goes down for maintenance at this time every week.

Edit: Tuesdays ~3pm PST

I hope they continue to do good, but am also skeptical.

And, man, I miss the old Gravatar.

The not cool parts just relate to any sort of hosted bridge. If you don't trust them with decrypting messages on their end, then don't give them your data - there are no bridges capable of doing that, anywhere.

So it really comes down to "trust someone else with your data, or host it yourself"; and if you're - understandably - frustrated with those options blame companies like WhatsApp or Discord that make it nigh impossible to integrate their services with outside networks.

Functionally, these bridges just forward your content to a library acting like a headless client - there's no way to encrypt that as the reverse engineered clients are not libraries and need to take raw input. You can't end to end encrypt it as the client is one of the "ends".

As an example, the WhatsApp bridge uses WhatsApp web as a backend, and has all the limitations of WA web.

As a result, I find the expectations to be a bit unrealistic.

I am worried about that acquisition, to be honest.

I've been supporting them via Github sponsors for about a year, now - as I only use their open source software; I've no intention of touching the service or closed source client.

As a result, I'd be lying if I didn't say I was anxious about their new owners basically telling them "hey, why are you releasing all your bridges for free, anyway?"

Really hope that doesn't happen, as their bridges have been my primary communication channels for a long time, now. I love not having to keep WhatsApp or Discord installed on my phone.

Fair point, if you're just against the fact that they wrote a closed source client.

It's frustrating that closed source software exists, but in this context I'm (personally) okay with it as it funds the development of free software.

I disagree. Beeper's client is meaningless, it's the service being offered that has value.

If you don't mind trusting a third party service with your Matrix instance + bridge hosting, use Beeper.

If you're into OSS and owning your own tech stack, self host the whole thing.

At no point do you have to use their client for any reason.