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by 0x457 13 days ago
In Telegram, I can open a chat, find a sticker, send a sticker, post a circle story, and shitpost in another group chat. All while WhatsApp loads my chat history. That is on any platform and any network condition, except for fully offline.

Their desktop apps are just Qt and not WebView inside a Qt. Mobile apps are native and not React.
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Krasnol 13 days ago
Ok I don't know what finding a sticker has to do with speed.

Whatsapp and Signal have stickers too. Kids use them sometimes. They are like in a list. You open the list. Chose one and then it appears. Don't know what there is to accelerate.

...and yeah, whatever language they are. I don't really care because, as said: there is no problem...

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0x457 12 days ago
> Ok I don't know what finding a sticker has to do with speed.

You don't know that it takes time to load graphical assets? And you can't comprehend that I'm using it as an example of how much more stuff Telegram clients manage to do/load in the time it takes WhatsApp to load one screen?

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Krasnol 12 days ago
No I can't since I've never experienced any delay which would justify this amount of criticism and I mean, Germany is outside of big cities quite messy in it's coverage.
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