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Full steam ahead on multi-user canisters this week. Coming soon. This will massively improve OpenChat's scalability and massively reduce it operational cost π
Getting the android app voice/video calls integrated properly so the phone actually rings now whether the app is running or not. Finishing touches while we still wait for the Apple dev account to come through.
Tinkering with updating our moderation bot to use Jev from typesafe.ai to apply custom chat message rules. Seems like a good fit and interesting to see how it compares to LLM classification.
Just getting the apple dev account set up for the iOS version of the app. We need this get going on the iOS specific bits that are different from Android (like notifications etc).
Our android app is now available in Closed testing on the Play store (ask well as apk side-load). To find out how you can participate, go to oc.app/home, click "try the native app" and follow the instructions.
OK OpenChat android app (store version) now in review for "Closed testing" on the Play store. We will see what happens but hopefully we are one step closer.
We've been publishing apks for our Android app for manual install for some time. Just jumping through all the hoops to get a version in the Play store for testing now. Getting close to review time!
Just breaking ground on the iOS native version. Will have similar challenges to Android in terms of limiting the feature set. But I think we have a much better idea of what we're up against this time and a lot of the underpinnings are already done.
We've said it before but it bears repeating: we will have to disable quite a few features to stand a chance with the app stores (at least to start with). There will always be a "full fat" manual apk version though (most recent version here github.com/open-chat-labs/opβ¦)