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Telegram has by far the best desktop experience from all messengers. Smallest memory footprint and snappy UI.
by kyriakos 6y ago
Telegram has by far the best desktop experience from all messengers. Smallest memory footprint and snappy UI.
- whistlecow 6y agoIt would be of such niceness if telegram was fully end-2-end encryption.
- kitkat_new 6y agowhat about being federated?
- vetinari 6y agoThat's exactly what secret chats are.
- tridenrake 6y agoI am still waiting for the day when I can initiate a secret chat from my desktop client.
- kennydude 6y agoAt least on macOS you can
- BelenusMordred 6y agoGroup chats are not encrypted.
- vetinari 6y agoThey are encrypted, but not e2e. It is a key distribution problem. Threema solves it by scanning QR codes; for that, you need to physically meet with the other recipients, they need to bring their devices and scan each other QR codes (note that Threema still supports only one device per recipient; otherwise, the users would need to scan each other QR codes for each device). It is not something that an average Telegram user would be willing to do.
- cat7a 6y agoThe nice thing about TG, you can make your own custom client (without getting sued) and implement PGP over it; or whatever you want
- rvz 6y agoThe simplest explanation for this is the fact that the desktop apps are native apps and not based on the massive and sluggish electron framework.
- WolfRazu 6y agoI don't think this necessarily has to hold true (Discord for instance have implemented their apps really well), but in reality this holds true for most electron apps in my experience.
- mtgx 6y agoDidn't Discord rewrite the app in Rust a year or so ago?
- Strum355 6y agoAs a heavy discord user, its performance is just nothing compared to a native app (gtk etc). Its notably not native in performance
- WolfRazu 6y agoTrue, but it is acceptable rather than having a noticeable delay etc. which I observe in other apps.
- sudosysgen 6y agoIt has a lot of noticeable delays, they're just hidden by the interface.
- e12e 6y agoI don't know - clicking links seem really sluggish in discord - both on Android and on my surface 4 pro. It's odd, clicking on an image link in a browser is instantaneous on either device.
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- forgotmypw17 6y agoIt is very nice indeed. I only wish some keyboard accessibility was better.
- timvisee 6y agoTheir mobile app is fantastic as well.
- Avamander 6y agoTelegram truly has set a high bar for chat app UI/UX. I'm hoping something secure manages to a achieve that level as well.
- Barrin92 6y agoRecently I migrated off Whatsapp like many others and the Linux desktop experience is really good, in particular the performance of search impressed me. Compared to the Whatsapp Web client it is much faster. If I'm not mistaken it's a Qml + Qt app which is actually very pleasant to write. Not sure why not more stuff is built with it these days.
- lpcvoid 6y agoIt's actually Qt-widgets if I am not completely mistaken. Also, the reason why not more companies do this is unfortunately cost, it's much easier and thus cheaper to just cobble together some electron trash.