A few collaborators and I have launched a new, community hosted, and privacy focused SimpleX chat server for Grin that has no accounts, protects your IP information, and uses a per-server profile.
I host one of the messaging servers myself, yes. If my power goes out or some other act of God or Goblin the message relay will be down. So far it’s had zero downtime after a few months.
No no, it’s a chat server you can host yourself which I do along with hosting grinminer.net.
I had someone help me find the right software to build that protects privacy at a level others don’t, and they donated the grinchat.mw domain so I didn’t do it alone.
You need to paste the link in to the search bar. Or you can use the directory bot to search for Grin and there are two of them, grinchat.mw is the one with Alice as the logo and is actually active.
They’re adding features as they go so unfortunately it’s not the most intuitive app when it comes to joining groups.
Works flawlessly on mobile device, on desktop its harder because you need to past a link. I converted @transatoshi Qr code to a link using an online qr code scanner, but it says the link transpired or there is a bug.
Unless your contact deleted the connection or this link was already used, it might be a bug - please report it.
To connect, please ask your contact to create another connection link and check that you have a stable network connection.