[diaz]

I don't understand the it is hard part. You register with a phone number after installing and that's it. Isn't that the same use case as whatsapp?

Sorry I never used Whatsapp, so it's really really hard to understand what are those features that people keep arguing about that are missing or so much easy of use on that application. I use Signal and Keybase regularly and I don't find them lacking.

So any write up anywhere talking about those misterious and amazing features and user friendly UI that only Whatsapp has?

[godelski]

Here's what WA has that people want in Signal.

> Group admins

> Group calling

I'm actually stopping there because Signal in the last year picked up a lot of other features that WA has and people want (like emojis).

What still could be useful

> Enabling md markup (I'd argue that this is more important to Signal because of the large amount of coders that use it). Note: this is in messenger.

> A better desktop app

> Way to add users without handing out phone numbers (low priority)

As just texting a single person it is just fine. But text is not alone. This needs to be a chat app, not a texting app. Because that's what people want.

> it's really really hard to understand what are those features that people keep arguing about that are missing

Ask them. Use WA. Figure it out. Figure out why non-techie people don't use Signal.