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Tbh, Signal is really lacking features at this point. That's making it incredibly hard to convince others on using it.
Signal's desktop app is just horrible. Whatsapp doesn't even have a proper one.
I'm curious what do you find horrible about it? I use it all the time and have zero issues with it.
Chat history is almost never properly transferred when you install it. It also randomly loses chat history for no reason.
Also the interface is nowhere as good as telegram.
I was unaware that it was supposed to transfer chat history. It's never once done it for me. I assumed it was like other platforms I've used where it doesn't sync your history unless you backup and restore.
Well you're somewhat correct about Chat history, but just that just comes with better security measures.. Otherwise the only thing I dislike, that you can't drag and drop files onto the contact list on the left, but only to the selected chat.
What features?
Multiple Chats in one Group ("Communities"), Polls, Group Calls are the ones that come to mind now. I think I had more on my list.. 🤔
I don't know if I understand the first one. But, good point on the other ones. Group calls would be really nice..
In WhatsApp, you can create "Communities" these days. In a community you can create multiple Chats/Groups with their own topic. So when you have a big community and different topics to talk about, you can create a chat for each topic so that you don't have one spammy chat. That way all chats belonging to that community also are visible to all people which are in at least one of the communities' chats.
Seems a lot like a Discord Guild. Very nice concept!
Well, it's basically multiple Chats in one Group, so yes, but without all the permission stuff and so on.
No Android Tablet version. On iOS you can use your iPad, but can't use a tablet alongside your phone.
Well, tbh, WhatsApp also hasn't had a Tablet version for the longest time. They are just now getting started with an Android Companion version.
No, but I don't use WhatsApp either. Telegram across multi devices works so well, I use that.
But that's a mess in terms of security. I love the telegram client and features as well, but that's a strike for me.
Huh, I haven't tried that. I use Signal on an Android phone, ipad, Windows computer, and Linux computer. I just recently started using Beeper though. I like that it uses Matrix for its back end between other Beeper users. But, I can use it to talk to people on Signal, iMessage, SMS, etc.
It's also really buggy, and it's got worse performance than even element. Like the calls don't even make it through most of the time, and instead the other person just gets a missed call notification after you stop dialing them.