What is Reddit's opinion of SendBird?

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Reddit's new "private" chat system is powered by send bird without any additional end to end encryption.

This means send bird provides a searchable plaintext database of all of these "private" chats.

https://sendbird.com/features

I like the (public) chat feature but to introduce "private" chats a feature that is clearly intended to increase interactivity and thus use of the feature without making this clear is just wrong IMO.

Reddit private chats are anything but.

I haven't seen concerns about chat being handled by a third party partner (SendBird) addressed yet, so I'm going to try bringing those up again here:

• Does this mean that everyone's entire private message history will be stored by a third-party company? Who at that company has access to this data? What if SendBird gets hacked and every reddit private message is made public?
• Does your contract with SendBird prevent them from selling reddit users' data? Their privacy policy appears to explicitly give them permission to sell data.
• What if SendBird gets acquired by, say, Facebook? Facebook will have every reddit user's entire private message history?
• What if SendBird has an outage for hours? Reddit will have no private messaging during that time?
• What if SendBird suddenly shuts down? Are you able to replace their functionality in extremely short order, or is there potential for reddit to have no messaging system for months?

Either you'll mess with your own back-end, use Firebase / Firestore back-end - or with third-party SDKs like

https://chatsdk.co/pricing/ (free SDKs tend to become paid or shut down "suddenly")

https://sendbird.com/pricing

It's outsourced to Sendbird.

The Sendbird API works, mostly, with some weird tweaks to some of the APIs you call. None of those tweaks are documented, but you can use your broswers Network Manager to determine a lot of it.

https://sendbird.com/docs/chat/v3/platform-api/getting-started/prepare-to-use-api

Not the default app. but you could sign a contract with a voice over IP provider, buying a new phone number, and write an app for that using CallKit as documented in https://sendbird.com/blog/make-local-calls-with-callkit

then, you could port your old number to Google Voice, and use its API to automatically forward to your new number.

Or you may find that either the VOIP service, or Google Voice is sufficient.

Send bird is a great SDK to get you started with RN, they have a tutorial here:

https://sendbird.com/blog/tutorial-build-a-messaging-app-using-react-native

Definitely missing out on a lot of the backend fun by making your own chat server, but I️ feel like it’s more appropriate if React Native is the focus.

Forget about third-party SDK and just do it in yourself!

Table view, batch updates / Diffable data source, web-socket, rest api, CoreData / Realm for persistence and offline mode support!

If you are not confident enough - go with ready to use SDK:

https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit

https://sendbird.com/

So suppose I would go with a third-party software like sendbird.com. How to best sync the sendbird chat data with my Django project? (because I need to access the chat data in my Django app).

Context: after e.g. the tenth chat message, I want to set a flag on the Django user.

I've been trying to integrate Sendbird for a personal project called Turnout, and it seems to work well. It has amazing documentation and spans iOS, Android, and JS

I think it's using https://sendbird.com for the chat thing so tapping into that is pretty much a no go.

wss://sendbirdproxy-06490ff42851cbcc5.chat.redditmedia.com

Selenium would work I guess.