So far complaints have been:
- Lack of support for markdown (as in bold, italic etc.)
- Poor support on windows desktop (on this I cannot be more specific because I use signal ftom my iPhone exclusively)
Interesting. I hadn't noticed the lack of it but I will eventually. To be fair, markdown is supposed to be readable and meaningful in plain text, so even if the symbols are displayed without formatting it's still useful.
> - Poor support on windows desktop
I have not used the Windows app, but the macOS app is infinitely better than WhatsApp's shoddy WebUI.
The kicker is that Signal does support that stuff if you paste them, and shows it properly, it just doesn't have buttons to let you use the styles when writing.
It does perform a lot of disk IO on startup so if you store it on a rust platter it can take a _long_ time to start though.
During busy work periods, I'd close WhatsApp Desktop to help me focus, re-opening it when I'm done, and jumping back into the group conversations.
However on Signal, the app spends AGES downloading (and decrypting?) each message it's missed when you re-open it, and whats worse, is that you can't even use the app while it's doing it. Totally destroys any ad-hoc use of it.
As a primarily desktop based chat user, I found this issue to be a deal breaker, so back to WhatsApp I go.