The 3 Best Apps for Windows Phone 8.1 in the Live Store!
One of my most favourite apps for Windows Phone 8.1 is a third-party Discord client MetroCord (by NLogDEV).
It builds upon the Unicord Legacy codebase, adding features such as support for threads, DMs, group chat and reactions (partial), while streamlining the UX. And, personally, the UI looks pretty neat.
(As you can see on the screenshots, the client uses system fonts. Emoji issues can be fixed system-wide for example by installing the Noto Color Emoji font.)
Some features are missing, such as calls, password login (token or QR code is used instead), background notifications (except pings), .gifs, stickers, or polls (except viewing), but their absence didn’t annoy me much (I mean, no background notifications is a feature to me lol).
I think this app is the best way back into Discord on WP8.1, and it single-handedly makes using my Lumia as my main phone possible.
Another one is a beautiful and minimalistic weather app called Haru (by FriendsNone).
It provides a sleek overview of Open-Meteo data with plenty of cool things on top, such as an actual live tile showing the current conditions and sending system notifications when the weather changes. It also blends in really nicely with other system apps and feels incredibly pleasant to use.
It also updates automatically, provides a set of monochrome icons, a list of favourite locations and it can even use GPS for geolocation (which on my phone seems to be broken for all apps for some reason).
This is probably the smoothest weather app experience I’ve ever had on WP, as silly as it sounds. It feels like it was meant to be a part of the system from the very beginning.
And last, but not least, the experience my autistic brain was yearning for!! /hj
It’s Wikipedia 8.1 (by ThenonFun), serving as a great replacement for the older app based on IE WebView (which… doesn’t really render correctly anymore). It supports all of the basic features (such as the homepage, article search, random articles or a reading list), while delivering them in the WP8.1 design language.
As all the previous apps, it works great with a poor internet connection and looks pretty clean. It also provides a live tile with the Wikipedia homepage feed.
It quickly became my main place for finding information on Windows Phone, just because of how fast and reliable it is. As someone who daily drives WP8.1 and gets nerdsniped easily, this is one of the very few apps I couldn’t imagine using my Lumia without.
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It builds upon the Unicord Legacy codebase, adding features such as support for threads, DMs, group chat and reactions (partial), while streamlining the UX. And, personally, the UI looks pretty neat.
(As you can see on the screenshots, the client uses system fonts. Emoji issues can be fixed system-wide for example by installing the Noto Color Emoji font.)
Some features are missing, such as calls, password login (token or QR code is used instead), background notifications (except pings), .gifs, stickers, or polls (except viewing), but their absence didn’t annoy me much (I mean, no background notifications is a feature to me lol).
I think this app is the best way back into Discord on WP8.1, and it single-handedly makes using my Lumia as my main phone possible.
Another one is a beautiful and minimalistic weather app called Haru (by FriendsNone).
It provides a sleek overview of Open-Meteo data with plenty of cool things on top, such as an actual live tile showing the current conditions and sending system notifications when the weather changes. It also blends in really nicely with other system apps and feels incredibly pleasant to use.
It also updates automatically, provides a set of monochrome icons, a list of favourite locations and it can even use GPS for geolocation (which on my phone seems to be broken for all apps for some reason).
This is probably the smoothest weather app experience I’ve ever had on WP, as silly as it sounds. It feels like it was meant to be a part of the system from the very beginning.
And last, but not least, the experience my autistic brain was yearning for!! /hj
It’s Wikipedia 8.1 (by ThenonFun), serving as a great replacement for the older app based on IE WebView (which… doesn’t really render correctly anymore). It supports all of the basic features (such as the homepage, article search, random articles or a reading list), while delivering them in the WP8.1 design language.
As all the previous apps, it works great with a poor internet connection and looks pretty clean. It also provides a live tile with the Wikipedia homepage feed.
It quickly became my main place for finding information on Windows Phone, just because of how fast and reliable it is. As someone who daily drives WP8.1 and gets nerdsniped easily, this is one of the very few apps I couldn’t imagine using my Lumia without.
article by @xyla on one live network
Using One Live Mail before it gets shutdown and my idea on whats next
One Live Mail was introduced in May of this year, and I got to use it the first time in October of this year, and now it is ending so let me show you its UI, and what it could be replaced with.
First the contrast is kinda shit on some of themes, they but it kinda looks nice on the one I am using to take the screenshots, the calendar view is also very nice but there is no way from the website to view the full thing only the snippet but adding new appointments uses the browser one, and that i like.
The worst part of One Live Mail is that while you can get Emails from outside you can't send Emails outside of your One Live Network Contacts, witch it means that its a good burner Email it is not really worth much outside of that, its because is it hard to prevent spam and misuse and that why there aren't any providers willing to host this.
Now on November 1st 2026 One Live Mail will die and it will be the end of @live.net.co Email addressees :( but I get why it had to be done but I suggest that we could do a "Paper Email" app its a different idea to One Live Mail, because that was One Live Hosting they're own Webmail service and "Paper Email" would be something like Outlook Desktop or Thunderbird but on the web.
Whatever happens I hope that the other One Live websites & Apps don't have to go the same way and the launch of Paper does not end the same way as the launch of Umiki with drama & bullshit
-@asi on One Live Network
First the contrast is kinda shit on some of themes, they but it kinda looks nice on the one I am using to take the screenshots, the calendar view is also very nice but there is no way from the website to view the full thing only the snippet but adding new appointments uses the browser one, and that i like.
The worst part of One Live Mail is that while you can get Emails from outside you can't send Emails outside of your One Live Network Contacts, witch it means that its a good burner Email it is not really worth much outside of that, its because is it hard to prevent spam and misuse and that why there aren't any providers willing to host this.
Now on November 1st 2026 One Live Mail will die and it will be the end of @live.net.co Email addressees :( but I get why it had to be done but I suggest that we could do a "Paper Email" app its a different idea to One Live Mail, because that was One Live Hosting they're own Webmail service and "Paper Email" would be something like Outlook Desktop or Thunderbird but on the web.
Whatever happens I hope that the other One Live websites & Apps don't have to go the same way and the launch of Paper does not end the same way as the launch of Umiki with drama & bullshit
-@asi on One Live Network
What could have been - One Live Music
On the one live discord server assets from Figma were leaked featuring "One Live Music", it was the name of Umiki before it launched a few months ago.
according to Chris Ruby Jane and i quote:
"Because we thought making something unique would be better than just going the easy way"
they also wrote:
"Plus having the existing branding with the word Music just there its not something that stands out in any way"
The leaked images are in the attachments, and I ask you reader do you think that Umiki is a better name then One Live Music, because I think that it is and that the name change was great.
-@asi on the One live Network
according to Chris Ruby Jane and i quote:
"Because we thought making something unique would be better than just going the easy way"
they also wrote:
"Plus having the existing branding with the word Music just there its not something that stands out in any way"
The leaked images are in the attachments, and I ask you reader do you think that Umiki is a better name then One Live Music, because I think that it is and that the name change was great.
-@asi on the One live Network
Paper to come out next week for everyone
In the one live discord server Chris Ruby Jane revealed that paper will be a document, spreadsheet and notebook editor and that it will be tightly integrated with Sync and Network
Paper will be available to testers today for the web and UWP Everyone will be able to use Paper starting next week
And it will have real time collaboration as later mentioned
I here at Live News say that this feels like a Google Docs killer and if this gets open sourced than it could get a lot of attention as a alternative to Google Docs from the open community even and I suggest that One Live should add a presentation app and a Webmail app (to allow to to get all of your IMAP & Oauth2 emails in one place) and over all this is very exiting for us all
-@asi on network
Paper will be available to testers today for the web and UWP Everyone will be able to use Paper starting next week
And it will have real time collaboration as later mentioned
I here at Live News say that this feels like a Google Docs killer and if this gets open sourced than it could get a lot of attention as a alternative to Google Docs from the open community even and I suggest that One Live should add a presentation app and a Webmail app (to allow to to get all of your IMAP & Oauth2 emails in one place) and over all this is very exiting for us all
-@asi on network
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