TheQube is a social networking client developed mainly for the blind and visually impaired users. It has no main window and is operated via numerous keyboard commands.
History
A long time ago there was an open-source, MIT licensed Twitter client named Qwitter. It was developed and actively maintained by Christopher Toth and several other people. It had no main window and was operated only with keyboard commands.
After the development of Qwitter was discontinued, several forks of it appeared. Some of them have main window and a full graphical user interface, some don’t; some of them are paid, some are free of charge.
TheQube is one of such forks. Its first author, Kyle Jones A.K.A. DJ Quartizer, made quite a big effort in developing a decent piece of software. And, being a very pleasant person, he fixed lots of bugs that I, the current developer, noticed. Then, as the development went on, I started learning Python more thoroughly and began contributing to the code.
Unfortunately, now Kyle has no spare time for further TheQube development, but I hope he will return in the future.
You’re always welcome, mate, and you know it! 🙂
Links and contacts
TheQube is open-source and MIT licensed. Its source is hosted on Github.
You can report bugs and suggest improvements on our issue tracker (also on Github).
If you would like to contact me, TheQube’s developer, send a Twitter mention to the official TheQube account, @theqube_dev or to my personal account, @m_elensule.
Mailing list
To subscribe to The Qube Discussion mailing list, please send any message to theqube-subscribe at lists.oire.org or fill in the form below.
How can you help?
If you find TheQube useful and are willing to help its developers, you can improve the source or translate the software to another language. However, if you would like to help us in maintaining the website and empowering with even more resources, feel free to make a donation using PayPal.