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pears.com Apps i use daily, Keet (chat app), Holesail (direct connections between computers), PeerViewer (P2P remote desktop), and soon to be my own app that I'm building... just not yet.
I've tried Keet. Got a friend to join in too. Really enjoying that one. Tried HoleSail to see if I could use that with a Palworld dedicated server for a pal to use, but that didn't seem to work out.
Hmm, wonder what was going on that made Holesail not work? Failed to connect or something else?
I'm not sure honestly. As far as I can tell everything was working, he just couldn't connect to me from the game. I'll try trouble shooting it more in the future though.
I haven't used keet in the last couple months, but I was struggling with the UX tbh. Having to individually select and send photos/videos and having to sit with the app open as it takes minutes to send the files wasn't ideal. The main usecase for me was private file sharing.
Don’t worry. I’m working on solving the file sharing problem myself, and I think it will potentially help to integrate with Keet as well (at least I hope). I think they just have too many things to work out for the really aggressive coordination with large chat conversations and keys and digging through a massive database, that makes adding and optimizing files becomes just another layer of trouble. They will get there, it’ll just take time. In the meantime I think I have some simple ways to solve the file problem that makes it more clearly visible and robust as to what is happening with the file, and to think about its “health” more explicitly. I think the biggest problem is being unable to see what is happening and generic errors. There are some really simple solutions to make that experience both reliable and intuitive (in my thinking) that we are trying to get working smoothly. Stay tuned.