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I've been using Telegram for several months and have found that it is much more reliable than iMessages. The key feature for me is that you can access messages

by masnick 12y ago

I've been using Telegram for several months and have found that it is much more reliable than iMessages. The key feature for me is that you can access messages through a web app, and through native desktop apps on Mac and Windows. This means that I can really use it with people who aren't on Macs/iOS all day for iMessage, which is most of the world outside of tech unfortunately. The open protocol means that anyone can write their own client and pull out message transcripts. The business model is a little sketchy (donated Russian social network money I think) but at some level who cares: if it disappears I can just switch to something else (that probably won't be as good unfortunately). I know there has been some controversy about their encryption, but I would not trust any IM platform with perfect security. I care much more about reliability and availability on multiple platforms, which is where Telegram wins hands down.

mhluongo 12y ago
>The key feature for me is that you can access messages through a web app, and through native desktop apps on Mac and Windows. This means that I can really use it with people who aren't on Macs/iOS all day for iMessage, which is most of the world outside of tech unfortunately. And plenty of people in tech as well ;)
nodata 12y ago
Yeah you might want to read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927795
- masnick 12y ago
  Yeah you might want to read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927898
e12e 12y ago
> The key feature for me is that you can access messages through a web app, and through native desktop apps on Mac and Windows. FWIW you can use desktop/mobile xmpp clients with facebook chat in a similar way (not that that I really recommend that -- although it does allow you to layer OTR on top, so facebook can't read your messages).

by masnick 12y ago

mhluongo 12y ago

>The key feature for me is that you can access messages through a web app, and through native desktop apps on Mac and Windows. This means that I can really use it with people who aren't on Macs/iOS all day for iMessage, which is most of the world outside of tech unfortunately. And plenty of people in tech as well ;)

nodata 12y ago

Yeah you might want to read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927795

masnick 12y ago
Yeah you might want to read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927898

e12e 12y ago

> The key feature for me is that you can access messages through a web app, and through native desktop apps on Mac and Windows. FWIW you can use desktop/mobile xmpp clients with facebook chat in a similar way (not that that I really recommend that -- although it does allow you to layer OTR on top, so facebook can't read your messages).