Facebook Releases New Messenger Desktop App

I currently use Caprine [1], which is an open-source Messenger client for Mac. It's great for stuff like privacy (I can block the "seen" indicator, "typing" indicator, and the "delivered" indicator, but its performace is pretty bad, especially for large group conversations.

I'm trying out the new Messenger app now, and it seems to have better performance, but I still notice quite a bit of delay when interacting with the UI. Also, the right-hand sidebar isn't present and there's no way to enable it.

Not sure which one I'll use, going to keep testing it out.

[1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine

Interesting that it's still Electron. Considering they rebuilt their iOS app recently (which from what I hear, is now much better - I don't use FB personally)... why not Catalyst?