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People use Telegram because they have a great user experience. Signal, unfortunately, does not - and it's not entirely because they're limited by E2EE.

oezi 4y ago
Having switched my family, friends and many colleagues to Signal, I am fairly confident to say that Signal's user experience is good enough.
- skrowl 4y ago
  Signals experience when you want to use it on more than just 1 phone per person is still TERRIBLE compared to Telegram. If you use 2 computers, a phone, and a tablet and you want to use 1 Signal account on all 4, it's painful. BONUS: Signal uses crypto funded by the US govt and used by Facebook, so I don't really trust it.
afroboy 4y ago
99% of people i know using Telegram is for piracy stuffs, not the actual chat but i guess it's different in other countries.
AnonHP 4y ago
Signal does have an inferior experience. Signal has many UX issues, including the lack of a backup mechanism for iOS (if you lose your device or have to reset it, there is no way to restore old chats, and that’s by design). Additional irritants that nobody in the development team has thought about for years: * I decline Signal’s prompt to turn on notifications with the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days. * I decline Signal’s prompt to share my contacts with it using the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days. Signal may be good at security, but whoever designed the app has no respect for users’ time, and it doesn’t seem like they respect a user’s privacy choices either. Telegram, on the other hand, does not have E2EE chats by default, but the privacy features are far ahead.
- diebeforei485 4y ago
  > * I decline Signal’s prompt to turn on notifications with the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days. The key here is to say "Yes" to the app's prompt, but "No" to the system prompt.

oezi 4y ago

Having switched my family, friends and many colleagues to Signal, I am fairly confident to say that Signal's user experience is good enough.

skrowl 4y ago
Signals experience when you want to use it on more than just 1 phone per person is still TERRIBLE compared to Telegram. If you use 2 computers, a phone, and a tablet and you want to use 1 Signal account on all 4, it's painful. BONUS: Signal uses crypto funded by the US govt and used by Facebook, so I don't really trust it.

afroboy 4y ago

99% of people i know using Telegram is for piracy stuffs, not the actual chat but i guess it's different in other countries.

AnonHP 4y ago

Signal does have an inferior experience. Signal has many UX issues, including the lack of a backup mechanism for iOS (if you lose your device or have to reset it, there is no way to restore old chats, and that’s by design). Additional irritants that nobody in the development team has thought about for years: * I decline Signal’s prompt to turn on notifications with the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days. * I decline Signal’s prompt to share my contacts with it using the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days. Signal may be good at security, but whoever designed the app has no respect for users’ time, and it doesn’t seem like they respect a user’s privacy choices either. Telegram, on the other hand, does not have E2EE chats by default, but the privacy features are far ahead.

diebeforei485 4y ago
> * I decline Signal’s prompt to turn on notifications with the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days. The key here is to say "Yes" to the app's prompt, but "No" to the system prompt.