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Signal has probably the worst UX of any messaging app. It also used to require sharing phone numbers to add contacts, which imo is already a privacy violation.

• tamimio 2y ago
  > allows edits and deleting messages for all users And it has those little features like masked text and what not, features wise, telegram is just the best. I didn’t use Signal for a long time, you can’t edit the messages there!?
  • aftbit 2y ago
    Yeah you can?
  • mrln 2y ago
    Yes, you can.
• ThePowerOfFuet 2y ago
  Signal also allows edits and deletions.
  • jxi 2y ago
    I haven't used Signal in a while, so I probably misremember some of what it supported. I just looked it up though and Signal's delete feature seems to leave a "This message was deleted" placeholder like what Facebook Messenger does, which looks a bit annoying to me (https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360050426432-Delete-for-everyone https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360050426432-De...). Telegram just directly removes the message for everyone.
    • crtasm 2y ago
      But with the benefit that it prevents situations where responses to the deleted message appear to have a completely different context and meaning.
    • WaitWaitWha 2y ago
      the "message was deleted" can also be deleted, leaving nothing. :)
• jwells89 2y ago
  You’re also not stuck with the official client and all of its decisions like with Signal. In addition to the official Qt and Swift/Cocoa Telegram clients, you can find third party clients written in WinUI and GTK as well as a CLI client, which gives users the choice to use the one that fits their wants/needs best. I use both on desktop for different people and the desktop Signal client doesn’t hold up well in comparison. In some ways it feels more clunky than the iMessage ancestor iChat did 20 years ago.
• p4bl0 2y ago
  > Signal has probably the worst UX of any messaging app Really? I don't see any real difference between the UX of WhatsApp and Signal for example. And they're really on-par feature wise. The only things in your list that are not available on Signal are "tons of animated emojis" and "bots". Recently they also introduced usernames to keep your phone number private. And Signal have had all the other things for a few years now, and with actual security.
• maqp 2y ago
  >It also used to require sharing phone numbers to add contacts It no longer doesn't. It took them a while because you can't just slap features like that. It's not a string in a database like with Telegram. Telegram has great UX because you can build things fast and easy when you don't have to give two shits about the security side of things. You can cover that part with grass-roots marketing department and volunteering shills.
• throwuxiytayq 2y ago
  Telegram consumes up to 50% of battery charge on iOS, with practically zero daily usage, all energy saving settings enabled, and a single followed channel, whether or not I force close the app or reinstall it. I gave up on trying to make it work, merely installing the fucking app ensures my phone is dead in the morning.
  • kaba0 2y ago
    That sounds like a bug in your OS. Like, even if the app were doing something crazy, it shouldn’t eat that much memory.
  • seanhunter 2y ago
    That absolutely does not happen to me. I have it installed and don't use it (at all) and my battery life is fine.
  • misiek08 2y ago
    I have group of 15 friends using it and it barely uses 2% of battery while using it. Either you are just spreading misinformation or you should check your phone for custom wires added by the bad guys. 13 people on iOSes, iPhones from 11s to 15 Pro; 2 Androids.
  • niutech 2y ago
    You can use Telegram Web.
• nobita 2y ago
  > It also used to require sharing phone numbers to add contacts, which imo is already a privacy violation. https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/ https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/ Signal doesn't require sharing of phone numbers
  • zuhsetaqi 2y ago
    > Signal doesn't require sharing of phone numbers It does require a phone number to create an account. That’s the reason I do not consider it being private because at least in Germany a phone number can only be activated by using a personal ID card which it is connected to.
    • StrLght 2y ago
      Private and anonymous are two very different things
      • bigbacaloa 2y ago
        [dead]
      • zuhsetaqi 2y ago
        > Private and anonymous are two very different things They’re going hand in hand as soon as there’s a data breach or a back door
• mikrotikker 2y ago
  With just 30 staff