[guessmyname]

Ripcord [1] is a (native) desktop chat client for Slack and Discord written in C++ and QT.

It was posted a few months ago [2] and I’ve been using it since then, it works great.

[1] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699

[deedubaya]

Looks neat. Definitely a developer-designed UI.

[mtarnovan]

Thanks, I'll take a look. I tried https://volt-app.com a while ago but it had some bugs that made it unusable (for me) with Slack.

I'm also a bit concerned of using a closed-source client with Slack.

[atombender]

The Volt app actually looks in your browser files to steal its Slack login session cookie: https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/143.

[cat199]

interesting - they mention:

"Slack connectivity is now available for testing. It's still pretty rough and missing a lot of features."

any further insights here?

could just try it myself, but slack is our key communication so getting more input would be great

[chocolatkey]

I use ripcord for both slack and discord. Have not encountered any major slack-specific issues for the past half year I've been using ripcord

[rvz]

I just tried Ripcord with an old Slack account and it seemed to be working fine. I've not encountered any issues on my end so far.

[setr]

I was also a little confused about this, because I vaguely remember slack locking down its API, and people complaining of the resulting inability for switching to a different, and possibly more efficiently implemented, UI

[pmarreck]

can't comment on the original comment you made here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20500181 because it's now flagged, so commenting here to state: There is a deafening irony in deplatforming a post arguing against deplatforming as a valid tactic. I hope it is not lost on the HN mods. ;)

[dang]

Bringing ideological battle into completely unrelated threads is definitely not ok. Please don't do this again. We want less ideological battle on HN, not more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[pmarreck]

It's not an "ideological battle" if it's empirical (based on evidence and rational discourse).

The only "ideological battles" are religious in nature. I'm fine with keeping religion off HN, but you can't just call a contentious topic "ideological", especially if there is evidence and/or rational debate to be had. The fact that an insufficient number of people opt-in to discussing some topic in that way does not make it "ideological". Would you also consider conversation about climate change "ideological" and thus unworthy of HN?

In any event, the original post (interestingly) got unflagged, so this was superfluous anyway.