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I really feel like the best Signal today is Whatsapp. It implements almost the same protocol and is 1) super lean and 2) everyone already has it.
Personally I'd rather avoid the feature bloat. I also think it just waters-down the "secure" image they are clearly going for. I mean, broadcasting images to your contact list isn't exactly what I think of when I think "private messaging".
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The more useful signal becomes to the non tech crowd the better for everyone. Options are good and they are largely competing with WhatsApp although they have tiny market penetration right now
They recently announced they are removing Sms support on Android which feels vastly more useful for the non-tech crowd.
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I wish they would improve the app UI instead of focusing on features like this. Compared to other apps I use regularly, Signal feels kind of clunky -- the share dialog takes forever to load from another app compared to Telegram or Messages. The app feels like it's harassing me every single day to update. On open, the app often takes a few seconds of loading in my chats. Makes me wonder what core userbase Signal think…
From my experiences, Signal has the cleanest, most functional UX and design out of nearly all my apps. I have a mid-range Pixel 4a running CalyxOS and it works without hiccups. Not sure why yours is so slow.
The problem with signal is its a ghost land. Many people signed up after the new WhatsApp T&S debacle, but Facebook played it like a boss by delaying the change and draining the news cycle and they won. Almost no body uses signal, I have chat group of my friends on signal, and I'm really thinking of moving it to WhatsApp, so they actually see the messages instead of it being 20 messages from me and 1 from the others.…
Everybody wants to be Telegram it seems.
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From my experiences, Signal has the cleanest, most functional UX and design out of nearly all my apps. I have a mid-range Pixel 4a running CalyxOS and it works without hiccups. Not sure why yours is so slow.
I am using an absolutely ancient phone (2016 iphone SE) that's perpetually in low power mode, so it's possible that this isn't a big problem for other iOS users. It's also rather slow on my mac, but I have noticed that my partner's 4a runs it smoothly.
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Because it's not analysis, just generic sneering. Picking N boring things to complain about is not any better than picking one boring thing to complain about.
Thanks for calling this out. I was grumpy and unfair. I'll remember this in the future and try to do better.
I wouldn't write this today either - it was a much, much smaller HN and a smaller nerd internet. Although amusingly enough, the Rails release notes were edited after that showed up on HN but I don't think Signal is going to give you even that satisfaction, sadly.
The problem with signal is its a ghost land. Many people signed up after the new WhatsApp T&S debacle, but Facebook played it like a boss by delaying the change and draining the news cycle and they won. Almost no body uses signal, I have chat group of my friends on signal, and I'm really thinking of moving it to WhatsApp, so they actually see the messages instead of it being 20 messages from me and 1 from the others.…
I was still using Signal for SMS, and they announced they'd be removing that. So it's gone from my phone. Everybody wants to be Telegram it seems.
its mainly a Secure messaging app not an SMS client
And Telegram is the worst in terms of security and privacy.
When you create a story you can make it a group story or not.
If you do not make it a group story, reactions and replies to stories get sent to you over your 1:1 chats and not shared across other recipients of the story.
If you make it a group story, and share it with multiple groups each group receives their own copy of the story and replies and reactions can only be viewed by others in the same group.
After having been burned SO OFTEN by other social platforms embarrassingly notifying others when I did something I thought was a passive post, or leaking information from 1 of my subgroups with another I was very worried that would happen here, but great job signal team!
The only awkward part that I've noticed so far is if I have a contact in 2 groups that I create 2 group stories with, they now have 2 identical stories show up on their story board. It makes sense and I think the UI clearly indicates for which group replies and reactions to each story it would go to which is probably the safest (best?) solution, but I could see that getting a little annoying if I share multiple groups with a frequent story poster.