Telegram: Moving Chat History from Other Apps
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If yes this is just horrible, I don't want to have my data on Telegram servers without my permissions.
And by the way, that scenario is possible with any data that your friends have from you on any platform. They can technically copy your data from any source to other platforms.
If you share it, it isn't private anymore.
If I did have some valuable chat history in an app, wouldn't I just want to save it out as a file I can keep somewhere?
...But then again, Wire is so useless, it can't even import its own chat history, most of the time.
Wire might still be around, not sure, but I could read the writing on the wall. I got out when "mentions only notifications" was deemed a "pro" feature and not table stakes.
Unfortunately, during the intervening time, development seems to have all but stalled, with Signal, Telegram, et al overtaking Wire.
This would be bad enough on its own but was combined with an almost Steve Jobs-ian arrogance from the dev team. Their Github issues was full of requests, many dating back years, asking for really basic functionality like; font size control, support for landscape orientation, support for tablets, backup facility, etc. Most of which got a dismissive "We're not going to do that" response.
Then, when they belatedly did roll out a backup & restore function, it was barely functional and, even when it did occasionally work, could only restore on the same device it had been backed up from.
They "Coulda bin a contender" but, even with all the press coverage on alternatives to WhasApp over the past weeks, I've not seen a single mention of Wire. What a squandered opportunity!
[Incidentally. I moved all my family group over to Telegram, last year, after a Wire update lost people's messages archives, and the difference in usability and dare I say "fun" is like night and day. Even my 80-something year old mother, who's not the most tech savvy person in the world remarked how much better Telegram was]