Arbor is a chat platform that seeks to provide high-quality contextual communication built on a sustainable free and open source development model.
Since the Spring of 2017, we've been experimenting with ways to improve chat collaboration so that communication can be clearer, easier, and more useful. Arbor does this by:
- capturing which message you're replying to with every message, - visualizing relationships between messages, - providing granular filtering and history traversal capabilities, - interrupting users less often with notifications that don't matter, - and actively fighting information siloing constructs like "channels".
Our reference client, Sprig, runs on every mainstream OS (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more), and enables rich contextual communication: Your sponsorship on OpenCollective will help Arbor to grow by supporting: - our infrastructure costs for servers, domain names, etc, - code signing certificates from Microsoft, Apple, and Google so that we can use official application distribution methods, - small community marketing and appreciation items like stickers to hand out at conferences, - legal consultation, - and finally, sustainable part time work on Arbor.
You can find our primary repositories on SourceHut, though we also have mirrored their contents to GitHub for convenience.
