What is the crowd's opinion of YakYak?

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I have yet to adopt Allo and so have the friends I strong armed into using Hangouts to begin with, 6 years ago.

YakYak is the Hangouts equivalent for this app. It's been years since I used Hangouts through Gmail or a browser extension.

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Trifl is, as you noticed, very much inspired by React+Flux. The reason I went my own way is:

• I aspire to do more functional programming. React and Flux are very firmly not functional.
• Simplicity. Trifl has a built in router and is still only 10 functions + tagg.
• "Reusable components" is a programmer idea. In reality I find reuse is mostly a CSS problem.
• I don't like JSX – way too much code. Before tagg I used jade. I like significant white space.

Having said that, now that we have done all of yakyak this way, I can sometimes see the reason for at least componentDidMount(). Refs is not really needed we can simply use document.querySelector to get a node when we need it.

>Source? If the developers really ignore problems reported by users then >it's time to either get better developers to contribute or fork the project >(I'm not suggesting you do this but someone somewhere should to >improve the quality of the software if it is useful to people).

https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak/issues/1020

I totally agree re: Forking, the issue is it rarely happens and many great projects have been lost as a result.

>Then use another dock (I can think of at least three other docks that >exist in various capacities)

I did, I now use Docky and have no issues. Doesn't change the fact that support under FOSS is an undeniable weakness of the FOSS philosophy.

>FOSS never gets abandoned by virtue of being free. If it's abandoned >it's because nobody found it useful enough to pick up its code and >continue its development. Having said that the pragmatist inside of >me somewhat agrees with you. I want to scream "Just stop using >Google Drive" because that's the logical thing to do (Why continue to >support companies that are continuing to do everything in their power >to make it hard to use their software on your platform of choice?) but >that's your choice to make. If Insync is working well for you then by >all means keep using it.

Of course FOSS gets abandoned by virtue of being free. People get busy, situations change, life moves on and because people aren't getting paid to develop the application in question the application gets abandoned. This is a fact of life you literally cannot argue.

>Except it's not unrealistic. If it's unrealistic then make it realistic.

And how on earth would I make the fact that FOSS only is not a realistic option 'realistic'? Furthermore, what's wrong with paying a far and reasonable sum of money for a great application? Especially when you get outstanding support?

also, YakYak exists, it's a desktop client for Google Hangouts, supports linux, and is open source

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