Wavelength - Group Chat

Takes hours to “sync” and a message of mine just fails to send without any detail.

Wonderfully thoughtful, impressively technical app. The team would quickly add quality features and the premise of a decentralized, no-cloud E2EE platform is a fantastic objective. Without proper moderation features to block and mute individuals to avoid seeing their content, however, this app is a non-starter for many I wanted to try to bring to the platform. Several of the initial communities on the platform have incredibly racist and aggressive individuals that can't be avoided because of the lack of moderation tools. This app is best when interacting with dynamic group chats of hundreds of people, but as with any large group, there will be people that a user won't want to interact with. This app persists the ongoing stereotype of male/pale-run tech startups that don't consider the benefits of moderation tools, making spaces more accessible and inclusive for non-male / non-white users. It perpetuates the Silicon Valley / tech bro / libertarian echo chambers and systemically prevents diverse participation. After a couple months of use, I left the app and can't consider returning to it until these safety are added on. I grew tired of opening the app to incredibly bigoted viewpoints that I can't avoid reading in groups l'd otherwise want to engage with.

Wavelength is a great way to build and interact with custom bots but for weeks (months?) it’s been unable to edit or create new ones. The returned server errors don’t affect bots I’ve already created and talk to but I miss being able to make refinements or test new ideas. ChatGPT is running on 3.5 still and Anthropic’s Claude is just awful. Hoping for improved/restored custom bot support and an updated ChatGPT in the future! Would absolutely pay a subscription to continue using the app and support ongoing development if offered, just wish that main draw for me was still working.

Awesome app. My whole family uses it. Replaced Messenger and Text. Look forward to any updat. AI was a brilliant addition

Fun, secure, and easy. Wavelength allows me to connect with a wide variety of people across lots of topics and events, like group chat combined with Quora/Twitter, without ads or creepiness.

Really enjoying this alternative chat app. I wish it supported video uploads, and other file attachments beyond images. More than once a member of my chat group has had to duck out to use another service just to share a video, which defeats the purpose of using Wavelength. Also really needs iOS “share sheet” support, so it’s easy to share articles and such from Safari directly to Wavelength. Hope support for these things comes soon!

this app is the best way to talk to friends and keep conversations and topics separate. so cool it’s fr the future of messenger apps

At first I was skeptical and thought “do I really need another chat app?“ After joining a few active groups, I am absolutely hooked. You really see how design makes a huge difference an app specifically designed for group chat, feels very different to Telegram or ‎WhatsApp, or any of the other apps that are made for one-to-one communication.

This is PHENOMENAL. The idea is so simple, yet so necessary, that it is genius. Being able to have different threads within the same group in a messaging app is brilliant. I currently use Signal. I strongly prefer to avoid anything by Face.book due to concerns over privacy, so avoid WhatsApp whenever possible and evangelize for Signal. (And still waiting for someone to release even a paid version of Instagram that isn’t ruined by Meta…. :/ ). But this could be the one that sways me from Signal, because of the encryption and the organization. A few functions are needing to be added, particularly being able to name/rename threads. Looking forward to a genuinely useful app as refinements are made. Congrats to the developers! Thanks!

Really enjoying this alternative chat app. Most of the early laggy behavior has been solved, and many of the quality-of-life features users expect have been added. Looking forward to further refinements!