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I really don't think Signal is going to dramatically improve on their feature set any time "soon". The gap between any feature Signal copied from Telegram is 2-3 years, they haven't exactly been known to be quick to respond to UI fixes and feature requests.

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List of features landing in few days:

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1348785240819466242?s=1...

Great. Now they are not catching up with Telegram, they are catching up with WhatsApp.

You mean features like encryption?

Features that the masses actually care about, features like stickers, voice and videos messages and calls, disappearing messages, groups that you can manage membership and channels... wait forget about that last one.

No, features like a good desktop client.

Good desktop client might not be absolutely necessary IMHO. WhatsApp does not have one right?

It has a web client. And yes, that's a massive disadvantage for me. I don't want to chat, share files, and make (video) calls exclusively via my phone.

I chat, share files and make calls with Signal's desktop client. What am I missing?

Message delivery is quite unreliable sometimes, it's a bloated electron app, search doesn't really work for me, it has no message forwarding, etc. Video calls don't work at all, I just tried it a couple of minutes ago. It's just not nearly as good as it could be or as alternatives such as matrix are.

Edit: In fact, I just had to kill the desktop client because it stopped working and the UI froze while attempting to start a video call.

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