Introduction
A Unified Community Browser
Yack started as a macOS desktop Reddit client application and quickly evolved into the Unified Community Browser that it is today. Built to streamline user engagement with online communities, Yack lets you access your social networks, communities, and forums through our beautiful unified desktop user interface. Browse, comment, react, search, and interact with your favorite communities, or fall in love with new communities.
About These Docs
This Yack Developer site, yack-connector-framework docs, and yack-template-connector are a work in progress. While these materials may be incomplete in some areas, improvements are an ongoing project and pull requests for improving the Yack Developer experience are welcome in each of these corresponding repositories.
Yack Connector Framework
We believe in the power of communities and have architected Yack to enable our community of Yackers to create Yack Connectors with the the yack-connector-framework. Ultimately, we hope that making the yack-connector-framework available to the crowd will empower others to build the Yack Connectors they want the most resulting in a more engaging and customized Yack experience.
Each community listed in the Yack Browse Communities page is established by creating a Yack Connector that connects to any external content sources that follows a relative model of channels, threads, and comments. This includes social networks, online communities, forums, blogs, RSS feeds etc.
Notable Connectors
Built In Yack Connectors
- Youtube
- HackerNews
- IndieHackers
- Yack Feedback Community
Yack Feedback Community
The Yack community contains a #feedback channel for our most passionate beta users to provide direct feedback to drive our product decisions, a #bugs channel for us to ensure things keeps running smoothly, and a #developers channel for Yackers like you to chat about building Yack Connectors.
What’s next?
While we will be holding voting in our feedback community for which Yack Connectors we will internally build next, we believe it’s important to open up the yack-connector-framework as soon as possible so our users will be able to create any community they crave experiencing in Yack.