On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Georg Koppen gk@torproject.org wrote:
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- It should not be a desktop-only application. [snip] So, let's tear this
desktop/mobile barrier down while thinking about the future.
- It should support onion service-based chat protocols. [snip]
I wholeheartedly agree with these points. I would only add that for chat apps in general, mobile has perhaps 20x-100x the users that desktop has.[1] So if one had to initially choose between mobile and desktop because of limited resources, I would suggest starting with mobile and expanding to desktop as funding grew. Similar to Signal's approach.
[1] The biggest desktop chat apps appear to be: - Slack, with ~9 million weekly users: (https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/slack-statistics/) - Discord, with ~9 million daily active users and 45 million registered users: https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/16/discords-game-voice-communications-app-hi...).
Whereas the most popular mobile chat apps are apparently WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, QQ Mobile, and WeChat with close to 1 billion users each: https://www.statista.com/statistics/258749/most-popular-global-mobile-messen...