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Comment by DocTomoe

The goal was to provide a secure whatsapp alternative for he French administration.

They failed the "secure" part - nothing else matters, and that does not mean that rolling your own should be discouraged - it means that these things are hard, and chances are your pet project will be less secure than established systems.

> Please do not link to that website until they wake up and stop insulting visitors with this UI nightmare

Had I known that this happend for your UA, I would not have - worked like a charm on my side.

Thank the French for that, who are the main reason behind the EU legislation about Cookies.

> Also this is not a website a pro developer would ever read or point to

Gatekeeping, are we? "Pro developers" don't waste time searching for some obscure original source for a meaningless online discussion - they pick the first result of their favorite search engine.

parent DocTomoe 7 years ago

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