[mahyarm]

Address book based social networks are nice to get a bit of bootstrapping, but becomes pretty bad when you want to add someone as a text secure contact, or you want to run a version without using SMS gateways. It gets pretty complicated pretty fast compared to 'what is your username'.

I hope text secure gets usernames one day that you can associate with phone numbers & emails.

The web-browser version is a good development, it shows that desktop and multi-device versions are on the way.