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Unfortunately Telegram is getting more and more useless gimmick anti-features. It was better 3-5 years ago, when it didn't have so much useless junk. Still the
by fodkodrasz 3y ago
Unfortunately Telegram is getting more and more useless gimmick anti-features. It was better 3-5 years ago, when it didn't have so much useless junk. Still the most streamlined experience.
While voice and video calls, screen sharing is nice, they are not very polished, good quality, and UI is overloaded, but the last useful feature additions.
(useless junk: animated stickers, custom wallpapers, emoji responses (though I use them), premium emojis, collectible usernames, (i get that it needs money to run infra), channels and social-media-platform related stuff (i guess those are revenue drivers and signup-funnels as well)
Discord has one killer UX feature: voice chatrooms. It is great for gaming, and great for remote work too for small flat-hierarchy companies. (no setting up of a meeting, just dropping in to a "meeting room". I have worked on a product with similarly streamlined ad-hoc remote meeting user experience, but it is defunct now unfortunately.)
- pluto_modadic 3y agoI like telegram's slick UI library. making an app using it would be nice. That and stickers, reaction emojis (which I also like in Slack, and teams only lets you have one reaction) calls, video, screen sharing, animated stickers, premium-stuff however... all junk.
- fodkodrasz 3y agoTelegram is Qt based as far as I know. Funny that I would find the other basic comms channels integrated a good thing, if they would be properly polished, and the stuff you like is what I find junk.
- EGreg 3y agoHow do you know? It seems Telegram Web looks very similar
- fodkodrasz 3y agoThis one is made with Qt: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop I remembered this one. But having checked clients for other platforms they are not made with Qt. You can check them all here: https://telegram.org/apps https://telegram.org/apps