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My worry would be who is funding it and how they plan to keep operating. Venture Capital startups will always betray their users.
They will be offering a premium subscription offer for more bells and whistles other than the free option...I don't know anything about user betrayals conducted by Beeper.
Proprietary clients.
I don't understand the concern here.
You have no way of verifying that the client is only doing what it claims. The Open Source community is highly suspicious of proprietary software, doubly so when it's based off of Open Source code.
If youre okay with that then no worries, but ofr myself and many others it's an absolute deal breaker.
I'll take the risk knowing what I know about the Beeper people that I've been working with for over two years.
“I know these guys, trust me” is not a valid security assessment.