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by adamcstephens 2023 days ago
Signal needs to up its game. The experience is very far from being as polished as Telegram.
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I wish Telegram secret conversations carried over to multiple devices. This is a thing I don't have to worry about with Signal or WhatsApp.
WhatsApp secret conversations don't carry either over multiple devices if you don't activate sync with google drive (which kind of defeats the purpose of encryption anyway).
that tells you a little something about how their encryption keys work :)
Yup. I used Signal for several years but moved away from it. It just was not a great product.
Is Signal's desktop experience still an electron app?
Yep, it's still terrible, and still refuses to load non-encrypted messages for you.
I just got onto Telegram this week and was pleasantly surprised to see completely native apps across iOS, iPadOS and a full featured native Mac OS X app.