Hey. Im thinking about creating matrix client based on telegram. I think their UI/UX is one of the best among messengers. Plus their android app is open source.
I have to take couple of things in consideration, like: licensing, technical details and some more. Its very possible from the technical perspective and pretty unclear from the licensing/legal perspective (since they could change license any moment or even go private).
In this post i would mostly like to know if open source community even wants anything related to telegram. Not everyone likes it. The project would target mainly open source community and will be public as well.
So the questions: Do you think we would want it? And would you personally try it?
Thank you <3
EDIT: :V If you think its bad idea, please tell me. I see much of positive response (and i feel pretty happy about it), but i have to be real, so if you think im wrong or you see any problems, please speak up :)
There are a couple of non-electron matrix clients I enjoy: gomuks (TUI, therefore really light-weight), and nheko (Qt-based native app that’s about as snappy as telegram, but with less animations and crap).
i haven’t used gomuks, i’m not a big fan of terminal applications
nheko has so many issues. one version it was impossible to login. then when they fixed that, the encryption kept breaking and a lot of messages from my friends were lost. it also lacks a lot of features. last time i tried nheko was in january. so maybe they have fixed the stability issues and added some modern features; but otherwise it can’t compete because it can’t be used as a daily driver.
I’ve been using nheko as my Matrix client and main Telegram client via mautrix-telegram for the past 4 years. I fixed a couple of annoying bugs myself, and it has been working great for me since. Shame your experience isn’t the same, maybe you can report the bugs to the devs (who are amazingly responsive).