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wey

Fast open source Slack desktop app

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Fast open source Slack desktop app

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

while i love alternate slack client, Wey is looking much more promising https://github.com/yue/wey

tuananh used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-04-09 03:15:41 UTC to 2019-07-22 18:36:29 UTC.

0122018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Apr 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC220
May 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20182018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20182018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20182018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20182018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20182018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20192019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

6 sources
comex·Jul 22, 2019
> 4. A few good, Open Source native ports already exist, and people are just unaware of them. Native GUI clients: - Ripcord: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ - Wey: https://github.com/yue/wey ("written in Node.js with native UI powered by the Yue library") - Volt: https://volt-app.com IRC bridges (allow using Slack from native IRC clients): - wee-slack: https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack - irc-slack: https://github.com/insomniacslk/irc-slack - bitlbee: http://bitlbee.org (using libpurple) libpurple plugin (allows using Slack from Pidgin, Adium, bitlbee): - https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple - Adium (native macOS app) plugin based on it: https://github.com/victori/slack4adium CLI clients: - https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term - https://github.com/haskellcamargo/sclack - the emacs one you mentioned Most of these clients don't su
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pport 100% of Slack's features, aren't as pretty, and are generally not as 'polished' as the official client. But they're also mostly written by individuals in their spare time, as opposed to a team of full-time employees. So no, I don't think that native clients are 'actually a lot harder to build and maintain'.
In When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

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