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by YeBanKo 976 days ago
I love Signal, but somehow they seem to have stopped developing the product. The last useful feature was being able to change number. But other than that, things like MobileCoin or Stories show that there is no product vision.

There are many useful non-social network features that they can implement and test that would greatly improve its usefulness as secure p2p communication platform.

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This is a huge feature for me. I want most of my applications to stay as they are and not keep adding new features for the sake of new features!
That's also part of the issue here: we _are_ getting new [useless] features for the sake of new features lately: stickers, stories, crypto currency support are the main ones that come to mind atm.

And a formatting feature with (seemingly? would love to be wrong there) no syntax to use it without clicking/taping everywhere which makes it useless for me (and frustrating because with a syntax (say, markdown like?) I would love it).

Adding a cryptocurrency payment scheme isn’t exactly “not adding features” though, is it?