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Yes telegram is so much better than WA from a customer's point of view. The best thing I like about it is that it's an instant setup on every phone and doesn't
by superasn 5y ago
Yes telegram is so much better than WA from a customer's point of view.
The best thing I like about it is that it's an instant setup on every phone and doesn't require the Google backup integration which can take an hour to restore. Also the fact I can run it on multiple devices simultaneously is also kind of a big deal. Their API is also pretty amazing tbh.
I wish all my friends were on tg instead of wa and i would uninstall the later in a heartbeat.
- dotancohen 5y ago> I wish all my friends were on tg Just send them all a message that you prefer to be contacted on Telegram now. That works surprisingly well, so many people are on the fence waiting for somebody else to make the first move.
- dmje 5y agoThat's what I did, then deleted WA account. Worked fine. Everyone I cared about came over. It also lowered my noise. What I think is interesting is that the barrier to entry to join a new messaging service like Telegram is very small. The barrier to leave WA is very high. So to ask people to join Telegram and continue to run WA is trivial for them.
- lxgr 5y agoHopefully at least some of them will understand the technical details about Telegram's security models and decline.
- dymk 5y agoDon’t worry, even if they know, they won’t care, because 99.999% of people just want to talk to their friends
- tallanvor 5y agoSo you expect them to care about your preferences, but you don't care about theirs? That seems pretty selfish.
- dotancohen 5y agoI am not installing an application which collects my data and spoonfeds it to entities with the explicit intention of influencing my behavior. No matter what side benefit that app provides. And yes, I prefer to not communicate with people who would make such demands of me.
- throwaway473825 5y agoIsn't that precisely what Telegram does? Unlike Facebook, they actually have all your data.
- dotancohen 5y agoI trust Telegram with my data like I trust my wife with my credit card. So far Telegram, like the wife, has been responsible. I trust Whatsapp with my data like I trust 409 internet princes with my credit card. Their reputation precedes them.
- stereoradonc 5y agoI wouldnt trust my wife but I trust Telegram
- rmbyrro 5y agoThat's precisely how most people joined WhatsApp
- aydwi 5y agoNot all about Telegram is golden however. At some point last year, amidst the skyrocketing popularity of the app and WhatsApp coming under heat for various reasons, someone at Telegram thought of a fantastic (read: user-hostile) way to "increase engagement" - Show a persistent panel on the home screen with the name of every contact on your phone who uses Telegram, in the hopes that you would click one of them and engage them in a conversation. It's such a wild invasion of UI that it continues to blow my mind that it was greenlit. The panel cannot be disabled and lives right underneath your chat list where it has no business of appearing. They refused to remove it or at the very least, make it optional, and instead asked everyone to use their suggested workaround which, spoiler alert, isn't applicable for a large userbase [1]. I had to revoke "Contacts" permission to get rid of the panel. This single change has made me quite bitter about the direction of Telegram. [1]: https://bugs.telegram.org/c/1316 https://bugs.telegram.org/c/1316
- asah 5y agoI didn't give it Contacts any permissions. Works fine.
- rmadriz 5y agoInteresting, I've never seen that panel. Is it possible that they pushed that updated only to certain regions ?
- aydwi 5y agoYou likely have more than 10 chats, in which case the panel does not appear. This is mentioned in the thread I linked above.
- Vinnl 5y agoSorry, what's the problem there? I don't use Telegram, but it seems it's just putting that where otherwise would just be empty space?