I'd love to be able to contribute to Tox, but I don't have the knowledge or time to make that possible, and even when I have made what I thought were reasonable feature requests (editing messages, message formatting), I was laughed out with a wontfix that later became an upstream milestone that will, if I'm honest with myself, never be reached. If anyone has suggestions, please please tell me. I don't know what I expect to get out of this. That doesn't change the fact that I'm tired of slipping more and more away from the best group of friends I've ever had because it's increasingly difficult to even know when they said something. I know that things don't come quickly, I know that OSS projects often just take longer to work on because of a volunteer workforce. But damnit I have waited for so long, trumpeting "Well next year, Tox will be the end-all solution for a Skype competitor, and we can switch and not notice anything but how much better off we are".
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I just want a P2P, optionally encrypted text/VoIP/video chat that works with groups and is possible to use with my phone.
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I'm tired of Tox becoming more and more like the least important aspects of Skype instead of using the time spent implementing new DNS, or switching gears from having one recommended client to another. I used to be able to use Skype on mobile with group sync, then they just completely removed it. I'm tired of Skype updating to the newest, more feature stripped version. I'm tired of waiting for Tox to implement changes that should've been standard to begin with, like STABLE, CROSS-PLATFORM VoIP and video chat, group chat, an interface that actually works and isn't "just around the corner!" I'm tired from spending three solid years searching every possible lead for a Skype replacement, only to have one be no video, the other be no voice, the other not to have group chat, and yet another require a phone number to even register on PC.