Tbh, Signal's UX on Android is pretty good.
Is Telegram just better on iOS or am I missing something when you say it has better UX?
Is Telegram just better on iOS or am I missing something when you say it has better UX?
For example:
* Does not make it clear it's a point to point mapping (on iOS) right now. I discovered this the hard way.
* Unclear failure modes (see above). It's entirely possible to have messages be silently dropped.
* Texting vs. call methods unclear. I.e. there's a phone icon but no text icon (select name instead).
* Contacts list has some text only, some phone only, some both.
* The whole contacts list arguably needs to be rethought. It only shows others that have installed Signal/RedPhone/Textsecure. There is no easy way to see if someone does NOT have Signal installed and have the functionality to send a link to invite other person to add the app. I think this would help tremendously in the virality of the app.
* There used to be easy ways to invite people to the app within the app, seems to have gone away with only a tweet an invite to app store function remaining.
* There have been several instances when I can't see someone after they install Signal. They have to initiate a message to me in order for the contact to show up in the list.
* Signal has poor handling for contacts with multiple numbers. It's not clear which number is being used and you can't switch selection of numbers.
So what I'm saying is don't necessarily ape what Telegram/WhatsApp etc. is doing but I think Signal would do well to study hard the onboarding workflows of those apps.
You mean that there is no server to buffer failed delivery attempts if one of the devices is off or disconnected?
(Side note, I've hit that the same bug where the other person has to contact me first because they don't show up in my contacts, even though they should.)
Put differently, I can't register the same number to an iPad and iPhone simultaneously at this time and hope to communicate with someone. It apparently gets things all confused.
I was doing some more testing and it also appears that I'm unable to call someone with a greyed out name but with available phone icon. Once again, no clear indication if this is a bug (not supposed to happen) or a feature (can call but not text).
Since I'm not an Android user, I'm unable to confirm all > 2 scenarios. Someone should try and report back.
It's all very fast and working quite well.
I haven't seen a message with a double-tick that's been dropped yet, at least not on a recent version. It can sometimes behave poorly with Android battery-saving mode - however, so does plain SMS. Turning off sync is part of the actual point of battery-saving, but conversely, I never want to not get messages. That's arguably Android's problem, not Signal's. Still, it uses GCM, so at least there's hope for the deep sleep (which I haven't tried yet).
At least that how it seems iMessage seems to work. I have no idea how long iMessage holds on the queue but it seems no more than a few days.
Not sure what kind of attack vector a public TTL would constitute.
(But perhaps a new protocol could take the opportunity to improve things further and offer on-line delivery status notifications throughout the process.)
No matter what, messages should never be silently dropped.