| > sending you notifications when one of your pre-existing contacts joins Signal This was the main reason I didn't choose Signal a couple of years ago. I don't want all the people who have me in their contact database or vice versa (I'm not sure which it is) to get that notification. It's none of their business that I've joined Signal or when I do. Especially not the commercial contacts. I joined Telegram thinking it didn't do that notification, and was surprised and annoyed when just after joining someone in my phone contacts then started a surprise chat with me. Yet I've never received a notification about anyone joining Telegram, so I must be confused about this feature. I completely agree about Signal conversation backup being the biggest issue. For my uses, a chat app that doesn't save non-secret conversations in a way I can keep and search long term is of little interest. The ability to transfer history between Android devices is no use if the reason for having a new device is the old one is lost or broken. (I use a mix of Telegram "secret" chats (which aren't sync'd) and regular chats (which are) depending on the subject, generally preferring the latter if it's not sensitive. I often want to refer back to things or search them, especially things like photos, dates of events, agreements, etc.) |