Project Summary
Toxygen is a powerful cross-platform (Linux and Windows, currently) Tox encrypted messaging client written in pure Python 3. Its current feature set includes:
* 1-to-1 messaging
* File transfers with resuming and local encryption upon receipt
* Audio-only & Audio/Video calls
* Group chats
* Plugin support
* Desktop sharing
* Chat history
* Emoticons/stickers
* Screenshots
* Name lookups (toxme.io support)
* Profile import/export
* Faux offline messaging & file transfers
* Inline image rendering in chats
* Message splitting
* Proxy support
* Avatars
* Multi-account creation and selection
* Multilingual interface
* Notification sounds
* Contact aliases & blocking
* Typing notifications
* Changing nospam
* Read receipts
In a Nutshell, Toxygen...
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took an estimated 4 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2016
ending with its most recent commit over 5 years ago
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