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I don't buy it. They could have kept it the default but allowing e-mail as an alternative (which can also be stored in phone's contact lists). Or just have use
by Legogris 7y ago
I don't buy it. They could have kept it the default but allowing e-mail as an alternative (which can also be stored in phone's contact lists).
Or just have usernames, for that matter. It's not like they're a 5 person bootstrapping team who don't have the resources to solve the small kinks to make that user-friendly.
- tptacek 7y agoIt's not hard to build serverside contact lists with usernames; 1-person teams routinely build that feature. But all of those systems store plaintext complete contact graphs serverside. If it's so easy to get this feature with email addresses, why does Wire have a durable log of who's talked to whom on their service stored in a database? It's not because they want it.
- Legogris 7y agoFor piggybacking on the local devices' contacts: What makes e-mails different than phone numbers? For app-specific contacts: They can store and sync conversation logs. I don't see how contact lists would be harder.
- tptacek 7y agoThe fact that most people don't have email addresses for all their contacts? The application has to work for most people, not you.
- Legogris 7y agoI still don't see how these have to be mutually exclusive. Fine, default to phone number since that's what most people are comfortable with, but it's not like there's anything inherent making supporting alternative identifiers a difficult problem. Let it be my problem making my friends add my e-mail address to their contacts.