And this is why I use Telegram, for them UX matters.
Yes MTProto is not audited blah blah. I use IRC too and that has exactly butkus for encryption :D
Yes MTProto is not audited blah blah. I use IRC too and that has exactly butkus for encryption :D
But yeah, Telegram can't be trusted either. I hope matrix/element will replace both soon.
It took me at least twenty minutes to figure out how to add my friends to a room I created too long enough ago to have memorized the UI. And they added "Communities" which I created one of but cannot even tell what functionality it even provides.
I don't know if that's a client issue or not but it seems like (maybe?) it's trying to be a social network in addition to a chat app? Some kind of adding in Discord functionality or something?
I guess as long as I can not use social network features and still use it like I use Signal... to flexibly chat with whomever I know the ID of.
Telegram proves that to have even better UX, you need to sacrifice security (and privacy).
I can understand that they have limited funding and want to focus on the security features first and foremost, but that makes it really hard for me to get some of my friends to use it.
Having said that, I agree that Signal's UX is not bad, just that it could be better.
Telegram went UX first and turned down the crypto so that I can install Telegram on a fresh laptop and I've instantly got the same chats, with history, as I do on my phone.