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Anyone know how to get their elderly parents to switch? Whatsapp has us cornered and they know it.
I sent the link to my elderly parents. They both installed it on their Android without a problem. Then I received a video call from my mum - she'd installed the desktop app by herself. So, get better parents?
Can someone explain to me what use case I'm missing? Why do people care about old messages? Personally I just read incoming message and never "scroll back".
Can someone explain to me what use case I'm missing? Why do people care about old messages? Personally I just read incoming message and never "scroll back".
Anyone know how to get their elderly parents to switch? Whatsapp has us cornered and they know it.
It isn't harder to use than Whatsapp. It's actually simpler, because it has less useless bells and whistles. All you need to do is convince them that it's for their good, if they can agree on that then the technicality isn't difficult.
I suspect one of the most difficult to address is getting it to successfully evade the random vendor-built aggressive battery saving settings in Android. WhatsApp is usually whitelisted from those so "just works". If you don't do similar things for Signal, it will stop picking messages up/notifying you after a day or two of inactivity.
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I might have the wrong impression but Signal has always seemed to me to be uninterested in user requests. They are privicy first & user experience second. There have been lots of Signal forks with a variety of features the official client refuses to add or merge.
Well, sort of. They have their idea of what they want (approximately "security for the masses"), and if your pull request doesn't go in the same general direction they don't care about it. If it does, they're positivish but they still aren't eager about fixing your code. FWIW I've had one (very small thing) accepted and another not. That second wasn't a net positive if "security for the masses" is the only important…
Now if something similar can be done for iOS, that would be great...
Anyone know how to get their elderly parents to switch? Whatsapp has us cornered and they know it.
I sent the link to my elderly parents. They both installed it on their Android without a problem. Then I received a video call from my mum - she'd installed the desktop app by herself. So, get better parents?