| My 2c I recently got signal because some friends made me. Given how old it is, I was shocked by how poor some aspects are. I liked using it as an android sms app, until I replied to one too many sms over signal because signal always defaults to signal, rather than whichever protocol the person sent you a message via. People uninstall the app, or use iOS. Signal constantly defaulting to a protocol the person on the other end isn't using was too much, so I stopped using signal as my sms app. I hate that, now that I've stopped using signal as my sms app, it wasn't storing sms in android's common sms store. Now chunks of history are missing, trapped in signal. The desktop client seems fundamentally broken, often taking 5-10 minutes to sync messages in. I hate that I can only mute conversations for 1 or 2 hours, 1 or 7 days, 1 year, or forever. I hate that I can't mute a group and still receive @s. I hate that it is tied to my phone number. I think signal offers a really bad experience. I prefer keybase, for many reasons. However when my mother and sister and grandmother needed a way to share pictures and videos (which mms would convert to garbage quality), I set them up with signal. Keybase's mobile client is, unfortunately, specifically bad at media. Signal is decent at it. Although, the keybase devs as recently as yesterday said they'll be polishing the mobile experience in the coming weeks. Maybe soon I can in good conscience not recommend signal and start pushing keybase among my family. Keybase did also recently streamlined their onboarding process to not require a password- you can just download and go. Edited for spelling errors. |
On-boarding of keybase was more complicated before, maybe its better now.