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Re: Group Video Calls

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I'm amazed by the pace at which Telegram ships features, and with what finesse.

They have the most productive and high quality engineers in the game. And I say this as someone that whinces at telegram for not having e2e encryption by default.

Re: Group Video Calls

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post #3

I'm amazed by the pace at which Telegram ships features, and with what finesse.

They have the most productive and high quality engineers in the game. And I say this as someone that whinces at telegram for not having e2e encryption by default.

The Telegram Apps are all great and have so many awesome features that are crucially also extremely well implemented. Everything seems so well thought through!

It's just incredibly scary not to know anything about who these developers are, where they are located and most importantly how this is all financed!

I understand Pavel Durov is a very wealthy man, but developing and hosting a popular global messenger service can't be cheap.

Re: Group Video Calls

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I'm amazed by the pace at which Telegram ships features, and with what finesse.

While the development teams at Telegram should be applauded I can't stress enough that it helps that they don't have E2EE and centralized most of the complexity to their server.

Related regarding feature deployment: I got some negative feedback for dumping on Matrix for announcing Spaces without iOS client support. They should have waited until Element had all their major platforms covered before announcing it. It's maybe an unpopular take but when around 40% of my homeserver's users can't use a major feature, that's a shitty rollout.

Re: Group Video Calls

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post #3

I'm amazed by the pace at which Telegram ships features, and with what finesse.

They have the most productive and high quality engineers in the game. And I say this as someone that whinces at telegram for not having e2e encryption by default.

> whinces at telegram for not having e2e encryption by default

On desktop* there is no e2ee even among the options.

* where "desktop" includes GNU/Linux phones.

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