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Knowing the litany of "Chat" products that are out there, I'm not a huge fan of redundancy in communication products. I figure this must be a SaaS that completes my goals. Furthermore, many of these products are "mobile first" (as in they require SMS verification to begin using their service).
Things I'm looking for:
- I'd prefer not to maintain servers
- Must have a RESTful API or C++ SDK (we are not developing for Android / iOS independently) and we are not building a website (ie. JS SDKs are not very useful)
- Ability to add and remove users programmatically when they create accounts on our service.
- Security (obviously)
- Would prefer not to warehouse messages or be able to access them
Things I've looked at:
Open Whisper Systems "Signal" Protocol.
Pros:
- Known standard for secure communications.
Cons:
- Signal "Text Secure Server" code is unwieldy and poorly documented (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Server)
Twilio "Programmable Chat"
Pros:
- Dynamic REST APIs
- 3rd Party hosted (don't have any servers to maintain and scale)
Cons:
- Corporate Service hosting (I know Twilio is better than most)
Thoughts?
I contact the city council to see if anyone had contacted them about doing residential FiOS: they referred me to a systems administrator, he stated that the city was a missing piece of "link" between the two major piece of conduit and that he thought it would be another 2 years before it was complete.
This was the extent of his answers. He did not think anyone had "contacted them" about using the existing infra. for residential FiOS
I've been very interested in community-based FiOS initiatives and I'm wondering if I should keep pushing them (the city council)?
Perhaps there is a company/group that can do a feasibility study- but I don't know what to look for on the internet so I can contact them and find out the costs of doing a study like this to submit to city council? Or should I just drop it? A bridge too far?
I entered the recovery email address and didn't receive the e-mail (it was to a old college email address that was no longer active).
Called my former college and asked them to reactivate it, but because I failed the first attempt at their bizarre password recovery form (I believe I am locked out, and can no longer receive codes on my recovery email!?)
Now after 3 attempts entered "Subjects of Emails I've recently sent" (No explanation- is this for an @outlook address? Or my gmail?!)
Calling Microsoft support just redirects you to another recovery screen and disconnects you from the phone.
With questions like "Subjects of recently sent emails" and "Recently sent email recipients addresses" It makes me wonder what the hell they're thinking by not telling me from which e-mail address they're referring? Google? Do they have a way of asking Google if this is even accurate?