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That’s wonderful. Will they make a proper desktop app already?

• puyoxyz 4y ago
  The desktop app seems good in my experience ?
  • tharne 4y ago
    It's ok, but not great. The biggest issue is that Signal is really designed to be tied to your smartphone and managed from there. I, and I suspect a lot of other folks who use the desktop app, would prefer Signal to be more platform and device agnostic, like email. There are ways with the signal-cli utility to make your desktop Signal application the primary signal client, but then managing contacts and groups becomes a real hassle - you have to message with a bunch of json config files and the cli utility doesn't always work as expected. I'll freely admit, this is probably not an issue for most regular users, but it's still something that could be improved.
    • dade_ 4y ago
      Yes, this is exactly what I am getting at. The cell phone number is the user identity, and this is flawed thinking. Some people have more than one phone number, and some people use more than 1 PC. Signal fails miserably here, and so I think it has been relegated to a niche market. Everyone I know that tried Signal, also tried Telegram. Anecdotal, but we are still communicating with Telegram.