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by mattowen_uk 1983 days ago
The Signal Windows Desktop app is unusable if you don't keep it running all the time.

During busy work periods, I'd close WhatsApp Desktop to help me focus, re-opening it when I'm done, and jumping back into the group conversations.

However on Signal, the app spends AGES downloading (and decrypting?) each message it's missed when you re-open it, and whats worse, is that you can't even use the app while it's doing it. Totally destroys any ad-hoc use of it.

As a primarily desktop based chat user, I found this issue to be a deal breaker, so back to WhatsApp I go.