That seems like a pretty naive and biased approach to software to me honestly.

Ease of use, community support, feature set, CI/CD etc…all should come into play when deciding what to use.

Freedom at all costs is great until you limit the community development and potential user base by 90% by using a completely open repo service that 5% of the population uses or some small discord alternative.

So then the option is to host on multiple platforms/communities and the management and time investment goes up keeping them in sync and active.

As with most things in life, it’s best to look at things with nuance rather than a hard stance imo.

I may stand it up on another service at some point, but also anyone else is totally free to do that as well. There are no restrictions.

Ahh, I see lol

I’m not sure I understand at all?

It’s fully open source, can run/connect any number of fully local models as well as the big name models if a user chooses to use them.

Can you expand on what you mean?

Thanks!

Unfortunately currently there isn’t a true RAG implementation largely due to the fact that this site/app is fully self contained with no additional servers or database etc…which is typically required for RAG.

For now file uploads are stored in the browser’s own local database and the content can be extracted and added to the current conversation context easily.

I definitely want to add a more full RAG system but it’s a process to say the least, and if I implement it I want it to be quite effective. My experience with RAG generally has left me quite unimpressed with a few quite decent implementations being the exception.

Web search is definitely something I want to add, haven’t quite figured out the route I want to take implementing it just yet though.

Hopefully I can get it added sooner rather than later!

Interesting, thanks for the info!

I wasn’t aware of the update process being used as an attack vector (if it’s still a thing) gonna have to read up more on that.

I used Apple for the last few years until recently and I can’t say I’ve ever really noticed stuff like apps faking being another app. That’s not to say it doesn’t happen of course.

I do know the Apple app approval process is definitely more strict than what is required for the Play Store.

I’m not very experienced with Apple or Android development so I’d be curious to hear from devs that use both platforms as well.

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What are you talking about? You are the one who ranted about people proving you wrong.

You made a big deal out of someone being perfectly pleasant replying to you.

Your viewpoint of anyone responding to you with anything other than agreement as an attack seems to be the real issue.

I’m not upset, you shouldn’t be either, it’s not that big of a deal.

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Seems like a friendly enough response was given to your comment and you automatically assumed they were only interested in saying you’re wrong.

Having a discussion is not “proving everyone wrong”

I disliked signal app wise, and Matrix app was a buggy mess for me and the 4 other people who tried to use it as well

SimpleX was easy to setup and has been for the most part stable for all of us.

Basically to answer your question, people like different things.

SimpleX isn’t perfect by any means but it seems to be developed at a somewhat decent pace with noticeable improvements being made.