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by elliebike 1887 days ago
Hopefully this works well!

Honestly the multi-device support is a big barrier to my adoption of Signal. Currently I use Telegram across several devices, and the messages just "sync" near instantly. With Signal you see them appear one-by-one, which is painful in a large + busy group chat. Obviously Signal has technical issues to overcome that Telegram does not, but the UX issue is still there
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hiq 1887 days ago
> With Signal you see them appear one-by-one, which is painful in a large + busy group chat.

How much delay are we talking about? In my experience we're talking maybe seconds, definitely less than 5s (depends on your connection of course). And since you only use one client at a time in theory (?), this shouldn't matter.

Or are you talking about the initial sync when you start your Signal client after a long period offline? This has improved recently for Signal-Desktop.

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eloeffler 1887 days ago
Telegram doesn't have encrypted groups, though. So it's a bit of a different use case. I share your pain when syncing Signal but Telegram is no option in regard to true privacy.
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gaius_baltar 1887 days ago
Not only that, but Telegram can't even sync secret chats between devices (the kind of that that can be a bit safer, but uses some strange crypto).
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