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> I’m bit reluctant to use Telegram due to its poor user interface

I wonder what they mean by that. There was a recent post on HN where many people said that it's one of the most polished private messengers (and I myself love it too).

As for the connections to Russia, this isn't an issue, since they store all their data encrypted in datacenters around the world, making it near-impossible for the governments to get decrypted data by court orders in all needed countries.

They also again mentioned the misconception that "telegram is not secure by default". See https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by...

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Op here, ever tried selecting multiple chats and deleting? There is no ability to do that, and deleting a chat is a multi step process on android

ok, tbh I don't delete chats, so never noticed this

Yes deleting chats involve multiple steps. at least on adroid which i have tried.

Plus there is no option to select multiple chats, which is quite annoying

Tap and hold on a Chat in Android and it selects. A tick appears beside it. You can continue to tap on other chats to select multiple chats. A Bin icon will appear at the top to delete them.

I don't see what's so difficult about that.

[and, like a previous commenter, I never delete chats either but I sussed that out in about 2 seconds by following the standard Android convention of tapping and holding on items in a list, to make multiple selections.]

I also find it odd you condemn Telegram for its 'poor interface' when it's generally recognised as being one of the most polished of the various chat apps you list.

I've recently come to Telegram after years of using Wire and becoming frustrated with its stagnated development and user-hostile dev team. Before settling on Telegram, I also kicked the tyres on Signal and several other secure messengers and Telegram was lightyears ahead of them all, in terms of features and usability.

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