More and more I appreciate Signal for what it is. A no nonsense (okay, stickers) messaging tool for people that know each other in real life. I hope it never changes into something "social".
I want Signal to succeed but I always hesitate to recommend it because it always feels like an early beta product to me, not something ready for prime time.
Isn't this because of how true end to end encryption works and Signal treating each user devices as an independent device and not "syncing"?
Here's a discussion on it:
https://community.signalusers.org/t/message-history-sync-for...
The only place I could agree WhatsApp has a significantly better UX is with backing up messages.
I always found it very dissonant that all I hear coming from the Signal devs is "we know best, you know nothing" but then when it comes to a native client the only thing they manage to implement is a half-assed, bloated-yet-underfeatured electron client (which already suffered at least one significant security vulnerability I might add). If they were a little more open with their development policies they might not be in such an awkward situation right now.
So as the GP said, subpar.
Also, scheduled messages. Ability to message people without exposing ones phone number (a real blocker from using Signal for some group chats that are privacy minded). Default camera is very bad, image picker is slow and picks images from all dorectories instead of my main camera dir. My gf wasn't even aware its possible to send multiple images in a single message until I pointed it out. Telegram has none of these issues :/ I really want to love signal, its my daily driver. But its incredibly hard.