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I would recommend signal simply because Element’s UX/UI and branding (which is more important than tech people usually admit) is bad. I’ve had the element app
by bogwog 6y ago
I would recommend signal simply because Element’s UX/UI and branding (which is more important than tech people usually admit) is bad.
I’ve had the element app on my iPhone sitting unused for a long time, and sometimes I scroll by it and forget what it is. When I launch it, the first thing I see is a loading spinner thing on top of my chat rooms and contacts. What is it loading? I don’t know, and I probably don’t care enough to want to wait for it.
Element is superior to Signal in technical aspects, but crappy in the parts that matter most for a social/chat application. Luckily, Signal is a decent alternative.
- fartcannon 6y agoAs you say, Element is superior technically and in my experience has a better UX/UI (simple sign up, no need for phone numbers, and straightforward chat app). I don't recommend Signal due to the, as you say, inferior technical aspects, the phone number dependency security issues, and the centralized single point of failure (recall the huge, day long outage they had a few weeks ago) I use Element as my primary chat application, across platforms like iOS, web and android, and I've never seen it load. I use it with friends, colleagues and with my 73 year old mum. Bonus points because it's in F-Droid, too! Basically, it's just great, in my opinion!
- SecurityLagoon 6y agoIt loads when you are in a large number of rooms and it has to pull and decrypt large amounts of backlog. But its really not that long.