With a lot of open source projects being worked on largely out of passion rather than financial gain I feel like there must have been several times where a release caught people off guard and “came out of nowhere” with its impressive scale.

To give some examples of how this might happen maybe it was an initial release dropped to the public in a complete state that had been worked on for a while privately or a project that was dormant for an extended period of time and removedd back up.

Can anyone here think of an example? It doesn’t necessarily need to be something groundbreaking maybe it got people excited in a very specific niche.

If you do have an answer I’d appreciate it if you could elaborate on it.

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    Some people don’t like them because the fdroid app wasn’t updated for years. I actually started migrating to Matrix because if this, but I really don’t like that matrix sends a lot of data unencrypted.

    Now that Wire is pushing updates to fdroid again, I don’t see much valid criticism

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      Gotcha. So is Wire like, the privacy seeker’s dream messaging app? No phone number, always-on encryption, zero-knowledge servers, open source… any caveats?

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        Caveat…only some of your friends will actually install it?

        But, yeah, its been my app of choice for years. Its definitely the best imo