[morgante]

I have in fact used WeChat (particularly when I was in China) and my opinion is that it's still incredibly mediocre.

In just a few weeks of using it, I ran into numerous bugs and inconsistencies—not to mention the fact that it's a giant walled garden with zero privacy.

Unfortunately, it is essential in China (primarily because alternatives are throttled/banned). I definitely would never use it anywhere else though if I had a choice.

[nullnilvoid]

Can you elaborate on the bugs you found during the weeks? I have used it years and have yet found any bug.

[morgante]

It was 2 years ago, so I don't really recall most of the bugs. I do remember struggling mightily when I somehow lost access to my account. Restoring access required opening a janky web view with a form that wouldn't load properly on my iPhone so I had to borrow a friend's Android phone to try. Then the form was entirely in Chinese with no internationalization/translation available.

[Trufa]

Oh, coincidentally, I've just had to do that, and it's true it is still a little bit "janky" since it's a webview and the process is a weird, but it was perfectly doable, it was also internationalized,

Not saying the app is perfect though, I'm sure it has lot's of bugs, and to be honest I definitely haven't used it fully, since I just use it for this one contact and mainly just talk, I was specifically talking about having good stable conversation for hours.

[nullnilvoid]

I suggest you give it another try. 2 years is a long time. At that time, English support was not good. It is much better now (I am using the English version). It is years ahead of WhatsApp, FB Messenger in terms of stability and features.

[idra]

Push notifications have been broken on iOS for over a year already. You don't receive them unless the WeChat is open in the background.

[sdm]

Huh? Push notification work just fine. I use WeChat daily on my iPhone and never had an issue with push notifications.