Townsquare
Team chat nobody else can read.
Channels and direct messages for the people in your organization. Messages are encrypted on the device that sends them and decrypted on the devices that receive them — the server they pass through holds ciphertext briefly and deletes it on delivery.
Ada
Shipping the migration tonight.
Ben
I'll watch the queue.
Chi
Rollback plan is in the doc.
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It runs on your machine, not in a tab
Townsquare is a desktop app, and that is a consequence of the encryption rather than a limitation of it. Your keys live on the devices you install it on. A browser tab has nowhere to keep a key that a website — including ours — could not eventually reach, so there is no web version and there is not going to be one.
Your organization
Your colleagues are already in it
Sign in with your why.email account and you are in your organization's workspace. There is no second list of people to maintain: whoever your administrator has given a mailbox has a place here, with the same role they hold everywhere else.
- Sign in with why.email — no separate password, and no invitation to wait for.
- Someone added to your organization can use Townsquare the moment they install it.
- Someone removed from your organization loses their place here too.
- Channels for a team or a project; direct messages for everything else.
What we can and cannot see
We cannot read your messages, and neither can the server
This is worth being precise about, because 'encrypted' is claimed by nearly everything.
What the server holds
- Encrypted messages, only until the recipient's device collects them, then deleted.
- Who is in which workspace and which channels exist.
- Which devices you have signed in on.
What it never holds
- The text of any message, at any point, in any form it could read.
- The keys — those are generated on your devices and never leave them.
- A history it could hand over. Your conversations exist on your devices and nowhere else.
The consequence worth knowing before you rely on it: because your conversations live on your devices and we hold no readable copy, losing every device you have signed in on means losing that history. Nobody can restore it for you — which is the same property that stops anybody else reading it.