[choosegoose]

Are you not concerned with the data Wire collects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069674

Versus the data Signal collects:

https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/

Although I agree Wire looks like a much more (visually) polished chat service, it seems like they (Wire) collect more data than is necessary.

[AdrianRossouw]

Wire has open sourced it's server code (gplv3 even) and is working on federation support :

https://medium.com/@wireapp/wire-server-code-now-100-open-so...

So you can run your own copy of it, and be in complete control of any information it collects.

[choosegoose]

That seems really exciting. When that occurs I will most likely switch over. Unfortunately you can't quite host it your self yet: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/issues/2