But it's so hard to try to convince non-tech people to move to another app when they are so comfortable with Whatsapp...
All my friends except my parents and siblings and a single group of people that includes some old ones have already moved after Whatsapp went "free".
My circle moved to Telegram for about a month, then went back to WA because other people stayed there. FML.
How reliable is Signal these days? I basically moved all my friends to Text Secure shortly after WhatsApp had been acquired by FB , but after some time we got constant problems of messages not being delivered, so we switched to Threema.
I've been using Signal for the past few months and I haven't noticed any issues. But I'm not exactly a heavy user.
I've been using it for more than a year now. No problems whatsoever.
Seems to vary a lot, some people are totally happy, I regularly have issues (delayed messages, crashes, including one that prevents from using the desktop version). Just try it out.