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I have just deleted WhatsApp from my phone. I am not really sure though what to replace it with for the occasional foreign phone calls.

by sdiq 8y ago

ionised 8y ago
Signal?
penetrarthur 8y ago
Telegram. It also has channels similar to facebook feeds/twitter without comments and/or retweets.
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ronnier 8y ago
Snapchat is my favorite for messages and calls to others with snapchat. (I work there)
- fastball 8y ago
  ... Yeah, maybe if I want my messages to immediately disappear when I click off the app. (even the new 24hr period isn't good enough to actually have a conversation with people over text)
randomsearch 8y ago
Signal has voice calling
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arihant 8y ago
If they are occasional, standard international calls aren't that expensive anymore. Telegram has voice calls too, fwiw.
computerfriend 8y ago
Signal would be the obvious choice.
- seppin 8y ago
  An app people actually use would be a more obvious choice.
  - computerfriend 8y ago
    I know I'm a sample size of one, but I know a lot of people who use Signal (and no, they're not all in tech).
  - balladeer 8y ago
    This is anecdotal. Out of my 356 contacts only 46 are on Telegram and among them 11 were seen recently (let's assume they still have the app). In last few weeks only 8 of them replied to my messages or read them so I'd say only 8 are actively using it (I checked with the remaining :P). On Signal, there are just 13 and only 3 replied to me in last few weeks. All of those 3 were coerced by me into installing it on their phones after I deleted my WhatsApp account recently. So basically none of my contacts was actively using Signal (the remaining 10 didn't even receive the messages). No one was on Matrix/Riot and no one installed it even after my repeated evangelistic encouragements and promise of full time tech support. Can't blame them as I myself find it difficult to use the service/app for any non-Slack/non-IRC kinda usage i.e person to person messaging. One day I checked just for testing and more people are on https://hike.in https://hike.in than on Telegram from my contact book. That was surprising. Didn't try any further and uninstalled it. Almost everyone was on WhatsApp and almost everyone was on Fb Messenger too when I used them. My contact book is very generic - obviously not the very tech savvy specific circle but a decent mix professions and backgrounds. Also, I have keep my contact book regularly trimmed and limited otherwise it would have been a lot more than 356. So, if I have to choose WhatsApp's replacement based on this criteria then there's really no other choice sadly :( Though I do have some hopes from Acton's $50 million. PS. I had checked one day and around 20 are on Apple devices (shows iMessage option for them but a lot of them might be on macOS) and except 3-4 of them none use iMessage at all.
champagnepapi 8y ago
I use this as my primary messaging app. I have iPhone, and I prefer it over iMessage. https://signal.org/ https://signal.org/ Just my 2cents.
cogidub 8y ago
signal
icebraining 8y ago
GNU Ring seems nice and quite cross-platform: https://ring.cx/ https://ring.cx/
krylon 8y ago
Signal might be an alternative, assuming you can get your contacts to use it.
meowface 8y ago
Signal
Markoff 8y ago
signal it's obvious choice, but also Skype has now optional Signal encryption plus they removed clutter so if you want actual users it's not that bad option

I have just deleted WhatsApp from my phone. I am not really sure though what to replace it with for the occasional foreign phone calls.

by sdiq 8y ago

I have just deleted WhatsApp from my phone. I am not really sure though what to replace it with for the occasional foreign phone calls.

ionised 8y ago

Signal?

penetrarthur 8y ago

Telegram. It also has channels similar to facebook feeds/twitter without comments and/or retweets.

deleted 8y ago

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ronnier 8y ago

Snapchat is my favorite for messages and calls to others with snapchat. (I work there)

fastball 8y ago
... Yeah, maybe if I want my messages to immediately disappear when I click off the app. (even the new 24hr period isn't good enough to actually have a conversation with people over text)

randomsearch 8y ago

Signal has voice calling

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arihant 8y ago

If they are occasional, standard international calls aren't that expensive anymore. Telegram has voice calls too, fwiw.

computerfriend 8y ago

Signal would be the obvious choice.

seppin 8y ago
An app people actually use would be a more obvious choice.
- computerfriend 8y ago
  I know I'm a sample size of one, but I know a lot of people who use Signal (and no, they're not all in tech).
- balladeer 8y ago
  This is anecdotal. Out of my 356 contacts only 46 are on Telegram and among them 11 were seen recently (let's assume they still have the app). In last few weeks only 8 of them replied to my messages or read them so I'd say only 8 are actively using it (I checked with the remaining :P). On Signal, there are just 13 and only 3 replied to me in last few weeks. All of those 3 were coerced by me into installing it on their phones after I deleted my WhatsApp account recently. So basically none of my contacts was actively using Signal (the remaining 10 didn't even receive the messages). No one was on Matrix/Riot and no one installed it even after my repeated evangelistic encouragements and promise of full time tech support. Can't blame them as I myself find it difficult to use the service/app for any non-Slack/non-IRC kinda usage i.e person to person messaging. One day I checked just for testing and more people are on https://hike.in https://hike.in than on Telegram from my contact book. That was surprising. Didn't try any further and uninstalled it. Almost everyone was on WhatsApp and almost everyone was on Fb Messenger too when I used them. My contact book is very generic - obviously not the very tech savvy specific circle but a decent mix professions and backgrounds. Also, I have keep my contact book regularly trimmed and limited otherwise it would have been a lot more than 356. So, if I have to choose WhatsApp's replacement based on this criteria then there's really no other choice sadly :( Though I do have some hopes from Acton's $50 million. PS. I had checked one day and around 20 are on Apple devices (shows iMessage option for them but a lot of them might be on macOS) and except 3-4 of them none use iMessage at all.

champagnepapi 8y ago

I use this as my primary messaging app. I have iPhone, and I prefer it over iMessage. https://signal.org/ https://signal.org/ Just my 2cents.

cogidub 8y ago

signal

icebraining 8y ago

GNU Ring seems nice and quite cross-platform: https://ring.cx/ https://ring.cx/

krylon 8y ago

Signal might be an alternative, assuming you can get your contacts to use it.

meowface 8y ago

Signal

Markoff 8y ago

signal it's obvious choice, but also Skype has now optional Signal encryption plus they removed clutter so if you want actual users it's not that bad option