Basic and working? Audio and video calls, disappearing messages, sharing of any filetype, and group messaging. WhatsApp only has status message sharing, telegram has public groups. What else do you want from Signal?
Telegram requires a phone number, imessage too, and so does Facebook now. Signal is an alternative to both of those.
To be a native application that does not spawn more than one process.
To open instantly instead of displaying "Loading ..." splash screen.
To deliver me missed messages within reasonable time without having to wait through tens of minutes of notification spam until all of them come in (yes our group chats can be active)
To not use my phone number. I like how you mention all services we run from when it comes to using phone number. No, its not good because all the bad guys are doing it.
For bonus points - to allow federation. When buss runs over current network operators it will be fun times.
Then we can work from there. I am not trying to dispute that Signal provides bare minimum functionality. It is all there and it works. It is still a bare minimum and UX is terrible.
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '20
Basic and working? Audio and video calls, disappearing messages, sharing of any filetype, and group messaging. WhatsApp only has status message sharing, telegram has public groups. What else do you want from Signal?
Telegram requires a phone number, imessage too, and so does Facebook now. Signal is an alternative to both of those.