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Current — The missing Facebook app for Mac
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@rrhoover I actually hunted this last night too but guess someone beat me to it!
I absolutely love Current - super convenient for me since I have to be on Facebook chat 24/7. Love how it gets rid of the constantly open Facebook tab and newsfeed which helps me focus a ton more.
And Ryan, you can just log off chat but still talk to people (that's my strategy).
@appden is the creator. Also, it's currently #2 on the App Store for the Social Networking category!
@tzhongg Thanks Tiffany! I'm really hoping to unseat FaceTime from its (corrupt) throne. :)
@rrhoover @orbuch @tzhongg @michaelsayman @vral @arix @gwenbrin Current helps me use Facebook Messenger productively.
I have all notifications turned off in my life, so I just open chat windows with the people I'm doing business/development with. This helps me focus while using Messenger on the conversations that actually matter.
The collection view kills it: 
I'm a HUGE Facebook power user (100+ conversations/day). Since downloading the Current beta a week ago, I haven't used Facebook in the browser at all.
It saves so much RAM and is a complete game-changer for the way you think about using Facebook.
@davefontenot I think you're my heaviest user so far! I really appreciate you as a beta tester, and I know you're helping to make Current a much better product. :)
@LiamTjoa Thanks! I hope it ends up being what you were looking for! Please don't hesitate to send me feedback. :)
Looks great, both product and the website walkthrough. At $1.99, I'll be interested to see how this sells.
@angusmclachlan thanks! It's the first website that I mostly designed myself. :)
Nicely done! Reminds me of a project I did a long time ago: http://download.cnet.com/8301-20...
The one thing I could never do was to insure that my web wrappers worked consistently as Facebook made changes, but maybe things have become consistent enough to assume this will always work.
@dannyjespinoza I've went through great pains to ensure its compatibility with future updates to Facebook's JavaScript. :)
This just seems like something Facebook would block if it got popular. Their services, no revenue stream (unless there's something between the companies unannounced).
@singer we have no secret deal, but I'm getting lots of positive reviews from Facebook employees. I'm not after their revenue stream. I don't block ads or insert my own, so I think we can coexist happily. Also, it would be technically very challenging for them to block Current, and would just turn into a cat and mouse game. :)
@appden I understand you're not blocking ads, but you are offering an ad-free Facebook experience for a product that you charge for, no? That's what it appears to be from your site.
@singer The chat windows don't have ads, but I've observed that it actually increases engagement with Facebook as a whole.
Was really hoping this would allow me to do FB messaging quickly without having to open the browser, but pretty disappointed that it's more or less just a wrapper for web views which still opens a lot of small browser windows. Perhaps it's not possible to do native messaging with the FB API though?
Two Best Free Alternative I've found and using myself:
FB for Menubar: GO for Facebook: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...
FB Messenger: Goofy: http://www.goofyapp.com/
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