[HN Gopher] uTox - Lightweight Tox Client
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       uTox - Lightweight Tox Client
        
       Author : peter_d_sherman
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-06-15 20:47 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | peter_d_sherman wrote:
       | Related:
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       | List of Tox clients:
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       | https://tox.chat/clients.html
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       | What is Tox?
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       | https://tox.chat/about.html
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       | Tox library source code:
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       | https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore
       | 
       | (Note that I am not interested in the security/cryptography
       | aspects of Tox (if it is indeed secure -- which is
       | questionable/unproven to me at this point in time) -- I am
       | interested in the ability to write Chat/Voice/Video apps around
       | the library (basically apps like Skype, Signal, etc.) To that
       | purpose, Tox (and the tox clients) provide an interesting and
       | potentially very useful source code base...)
        
         | JohnTHaller wrote:
         | It seems like only one of those Tox clients is still being
         | somewhat actively maintained. uTox hasn't been updated in a
         | couple years. qTox in about a year. Toxygen 3 years. aTox still
         | has commits though over a year since a release. Toxic had
         | commits and a release a few months ago.
        
       | grayhatter wrote:
       | Hi, former (current) uTox coder/maintainer. uTox has been dormant
       | for some time. And while I'm mostly proud of it and still
       | completely standby uTox. Tox isn't the easiest messaging protocol
       | to use. Not hard but not easy, user beware :)
       | 
       | Kinda shocked to see it on HN given the last commit date, but I'm
       | happy to answer questions all the same.
       | 
       | Bonus suggestion: My friend is still working on aTox
       | https://github.com/evilcorpltd/aTox/ (Tox for android) and it's
       | an _easy_ recommendation to make. The client is awesome, and if
       | you 're gonna use a messenger, it probably should be from your
       | phone :)
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | woodruffw wrote:
       | See also this somewhat infamous thread on Tox's cryptographic
       | design[1].
       | 
       | [1]: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426
        
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