If we’re talking about encrypted messengers, why not take a look at retroshare? So far the only downside in comparison to tox is, that you have to create an account. On the other hand each message you send is pgp signed, it seems to have been in development for a longer time … so yeah …
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^^ still the most impressive space engine after all these years.
Tox uses perfect forward secrecy with asynchronous encryption, based on the trusted NaCL library. Admittedly I’m very subjective on this matter though due to my MA thesis which is built on top of Tox. 
Generally it was just a suggestion, haven’t heard of retroshare before, looks similar. Any experience using it?
EDIT: looking at it it seems to be a bit over the top for just a joint group chat with VoIP capabilities. It does a lot of other stuff too, but as I said, I’ve never used it before.
My main experience with retroshare is that even though it is a good idea, it is a pain to convince your friends to use it. Apart from that, I remember having to have at least one guy in the whole network with the same ip between your logins, so that you could update the dht. Otherwise you would have to manually add each others ip again. There are big ‘groups’ though, so if you get into their dht, you’re set in that regard. Apart from that … I had problems with the ui, due to my screen being too tiny. So at least back when I used it (which is ~4 years + ago iirc) you had to have a screen with more than 800 x 600 (I think) resolution.
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tox is pretty effortless to set up and qtox has a solid user friendly UI.
But, teamspeak and irc are pretty timeless and much more well known at this point, if you want either a voice chat or a persistant group chat. I’d mention skype but even using it opens you up to a ton of exploits as well as littering your computer with tons of crap ranging from a constant stream of advert traffic to various microsoft integration things that insist on breaking other applications. Not to mention how terrible it is just from a privacy angle.
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Quick, update the information in the first post.
(edit: I should’ve probably mentioned that the statement was targeted @LucasFIN )
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The glorious art by IllOO has finally been added to the OP!
And since Kickstarter is just behind the corner I think the adding of new forum members will probably close soon.
In before close:
@Katak
@scorflane
@roninmizu
@Cyc
@dekaku
@Sean
@Red_Syns
@Gorignack
@Kreydis
@tiwake
Not sure if all of you wanted to join. If not then let me know. And if some of you were not nominated before then consider it done now.
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It’s good to be back! - There might even be a song in there 
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I’ll gladly accept the invitation ^^
No reason not to join if you’re asked. So sure I’m in (See what I did there?)
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No Kreydis you can’t!
Kreydis
What a strange sense of dejavu…
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I accept the invitation and hold it to my heart!
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Thanks Lucas!
Been a busy weekend and saw this thread… may I nominate myself to join? Will gladly accept the invitation.
Somebody nominate me please.
I was also a little active in the old forums under the same name (Playbenni, its in the list).
Thank you LucasFIN. I would humbly accept the invite.
I also was a lurker since old times, waiting each year for a new retrospective from Flavien with big anticipation 
(I posted on old forums once, by the name of “dzinyss”, I think). Otherwise, been checking out the forum and Keith’s tweets at least weekly for several years now.
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Thank you for the invite. Of course I accept the invitation with great joy. 