[theage]

Small group messenger. Compared with session/signal/status you miss out on large and public groups.

The transmit to every node with fake data all the time approach quickly becomes unsustainable for large groups of >100 people so even if you had a public user ID it wouldn't be seen by that many people anyway. But if they solve this feature disparity without IDs or bloat it will be very interesting.

[epoberezkin]

Yes, we know that (I'm the founder). The large groups support is coming, currently the largest group I know of approaches 600 people and is not too usable. We've just released an experimental directory service for finding user groups.

[jakearmitage]

How would an anonymized directory service work?

[elAhmo]

Why would you want to be a part of a >100 user chat in the first place? I don't know anyone from my colleagues or friends who are taking an active part in such groups.

Largest group I have on WhatsApp has a few dozen people, and after some invisible threshold being passed, activity in the group drops, as people are hesitant to chat with so many unknown people.