Looks like a great tool for those that live on Facebook chat. I avoid it and am always signed off. When I'm logged in, I get messages from old friends that immediately goes into small talk. It's good to catch up with people but not I'll save the small talk for IRL.
Curious what some younger PH folks think about this and Facebook chat/messenger in general. @orbuch, @tzhongg, @michaelsayman, @vral, @arix, @gwenbrin?
@rrhoover I'm using Facebook chat more and more for anything and everything - this seems to work really well for it. Don't really like the web view for the main site though.
@rrhoover I actually hunted this last night too but guess someone beat me to it!
I absolutely love Current - super convenient for me since I have to be on Facebook chat 24/7. Love how it gets rid of the constantly open Facebook tab and newsfeed which helps me focus a ton more.
And Ryan, you can just log off chat but still talk to people (that's my strategy).
@appden is the creator. Also, it's currently #2 on the App Store for the Social Networking category!
@rrhoover@orbuch@tzhongg@michaelsayman@vral@arix@gwenbrin Current helps me use Facebook Messenger productively.
I have all notifications turned off in my life, so I just open chat windows with the people I'm doing business/development with. This helps me focus while using Messenger on the conversations that actually matter.
The collection view kills it:
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Looks great, both product and the website walkthrough. At $1.99, I'll be interested to see how this sells.
I'm a HUGE Facebook power user (100+ conversations/day). Since downloading the Current beta a week ago, I haven't used Facebook in the browser at all.
It saves so much RAM and is a complete game-changer for the way you think about using Facebook.
@davefontenot I think you're my heaviest user so far! I really appreciate you as a beta tester, and I know you're helping to make Current a much better product. :)
Nicely done! Reminds me of a project I did a long time ago: http://download.cnet.com/8301-20...
The one thing I could never do was to insure that my web wrappers worked consistently as Facebook made changes, but maybe things have become consistent enough to assume this will always work.
Was really hoping this would allow me to do FB messaging quickly without having to open the browser, but pretty disappointed that it's more or less just a wrapper for web views which still opens a lot of small browser windows. Perhaps it's not possible to do native messaging with the FB API though?
@lenberg the separate chat windows change the game. It also uses up significantly less RAM than the /messages tab.
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This just seems like something Facebook would block if it got popular. Their services, no revenue stream (unless there's something between the companies unannounced).
@singer we have no secret deal, but I'm getting lots of positive reviews from Facebook employees. I'm not after their revenue stream. I don't block ads or insert my own, so I think we can coexist happily. Also, it would be technically very challenging for them to block Current, and would just turn into a cat and mouse game. :)
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@appden I understand you're not blocking ads, but you are offering an ad-free Facebook experience for a product that you charge for, no? That's what it appears to be from your site.
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