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Chating apps seem to be all the rage lately. Wire is yet another entry in that crowded field that deserves mention by allegedly being secure, multi-platform and mobile (no phone number needed).
Alas, it is yet another Electron based program -- which also seem to be all the rage right now -- and I'm quite sure it isn't natively portable (precluding me from testing further)...
https://wire.com/ wrote:[Wire] Modern communication. Full privacy. iOS. Android. Windows. Mac. Web. [sic]
Impressive. It looks like it's open source and uses some pretty solid, well-tested tech for communication including WebRTC for audio/video and OTR for text.
Wire installs in AppData without asking- it features these modern one-click installers which give the user absolutely no choice.
Wire is the definition of bloat- 171 MB installed.
Wire offers almost no customization (despite these 171 MB) as seen in "Preferences".
Wire is not serverless which means that if one day Wire Swiss goes out of business all the contacts one has will be lost- I have suffered this several times and I am getting more and more skeptical about messengers that rely on a central server.
I really liked Signal's program's simplicity but there's no Windows client yet and I needed something that worked with iOS. As such, I came back to Wire.
Status: no change versus smaragdus' work here. It's still not portable despite trying a few tricks. Still writing the whole program to appdata.
I understand they want to differentiate themselves from a long list of other apps but, if the initial draw to your app was privacy/security, there's not much left to build on.