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This allows for the thumbnails in chat, as well as \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003einline image sending\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e!! \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter debugging the seed a little bit, we figured out why bridging \u003c/span\u003ewasn\u0026rsquo;t\u003cspan\u003e working, and with some slight hax, auto-bridge works when nat penetration fails.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI have put some real effort in to ensuring the UX of chat, particularly window management is spot on. 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 It will be an adium style tearable tab chat window interface, but with chat/call headers much like skype does.  The header will expose participants as well as extra functions (such as eventual voice/video calling to the session).\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cimg src=\"http://67.media.tumblr.com/beddd6146bd706196f0d82b7315c275d/tumblr_n2k9vz9uEa1rgpsuzo1_1280.png\"\u003e","html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRival Messenger\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts late, but I got the entire object tree figured out for chat windows, tabs and chat sessions!  It will be an adium style tearable tab chat window interface, but with chat/call headers much like skype does.  The header will expose participants as well as extra functions (such as eventual voice/video calling to the session).\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cimg src=\"http://67.media.tumblr.com/beddd6146bd706196f0d82b7315c275d/tumblr_n2k9vz9uEa1rgpsuzo1_1280.png\"\u003e","excerpt":"","metaTitle":"","metaDescription":"","status":"published","featured":false,"publishedAt":"2014-03-17T03:33:35Z","authorId":"190160de54f2192bd5b8734ec8808086","authorName":"Daniel Chote","authorSlug":"daniel","heroMediaId":"","projectId":"","tags":[{"id":"916593977f80b04345262975446838d8","name":"Telehash","slug":"telehash"},{"id":"38904819f0c245599fc1d25604c85ebc","name":"P2P","slug":"p2p"},{"id":"37defa9c442415b737460cb144e8cf44","name":"Crypto","slug":"crypto"},{"id":"f4f962558c288fd313c575e21cf8411d","name":"Decentralised","slug":"decentralised"},{"id":"2cb4c9a5f33065947114eac0851fc34f","name":"Rival Messenger","slug":"rival-messenger"}],"createdAt":"2026-10-18T13:16:27Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-18T13:16:27Z"},{"id":"420c0e1489b6dcdce9a4a8add91f5be4","siteId":"projectable","slug":"rival-messenger-it-has-been-a-long-time-since-i","title":"Rival Messenger New Project, Old Name","markdown":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRival Messenger\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has been a LONG time since I worked on a project with that name.  I started Rival Messenger as a \u003ca href=\"http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Rival-Messenger/989991587/1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWindows app\u003c/a\u003e written in Visual Basic, way way back at the end of 1999!  After much fussing, pushed by my own dislike of Skype, and everyone’s dislike of NSA snooping, I have decided to build a full on Skype replacement and use the name again!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis time around it is an OSX native app, written in Objective-C using the Cocoa Framework.  I am building it on top of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeremie\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJeremie\u003c/a\u003e Miller’s new project called \u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTelehash\u003c/a\u003e.  \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/temas\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTemas\u003c/a\u003e has been working hard on an objc library implementation for \u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003etelehash\u003c/a\u003e, and it has just enough maturity now that things are working, and really coming together!  \u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTelehash\u003c/a\u003e is going to bring a lot of new and exciting options to the table, not only for my use of Instant Messaging and VOIP, or if you wanted to implement HTTP over \u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTelehash\u003c/a\u003e, but for \u003ca href=\"http://pinocc.io\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eInternet of Things (IoT) and other embedded use cases as well\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI will start to blog about my progress with Rival Messenger and \u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTelehash\u003c/a\u003e, there is an important milestone right around the corner. 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