[SpaceGorilla]

It's amazing the project has gotten this far. I honestly thought this post was going to be announcing the end of Tox.

The project started with a ton of momentum but never really got picked up in the mainstream. Iirc the founder and most of the core code came from one guy.

Not to mention there has been a ton of internal drama: iirc one of the devs stole a bunch of tox donation money to pay off part of his tuition. Then there was a split in the devs and one of the devs stole all the credentials for the website and they switched? Then there was the accusations that some of the devs where child molesters and where doxed.

They also his a brick wall at one point on mobile due to the protocol being very heavy on battery usage so for a while it was only realistic to use on the desktop.

I wish the project nothing but the best and hope they succeed, but I feel like they have reached a point where they have lost interest. I hope I'm wrong.

[snvzz]

The last couple years have been spent making things right. Documenting the protocol, fixing ugliness in toktok (fork of libtox that's effectively replaced it) and such menial but important work.

Now it isn't a hacked together piece of shit anymore, but proper. As a result, it works reliably. The user experience is very good.