I wonder what part of Signal sucks?
Why do people hate things that try to protect your privacy, yet care about privacy when the time comes and bitch about it.
The UX is nice and modern, better than iMessage and other messaging apps I’ve used. Scheduling messages, group chats allow people to come and go (mod approved) all seem more modern than other chat apps
UI is bad imo, lack of SMS is a complete disqualifier, nobody else I know uses the platform so I’m using it for one group chat only, notifications don’t work properly.
I think the UI is perfect, it’s simple and intuitive. The fact that they removed support for SMS is a bummer, sure. I’ve had issues with notifications before, but I haven’t missed any in months. Facebook Messenger (which I’ve fully replaced with Signal) was however a puring pile of shit when it came to sending notifications in time - just like Teams and Ops Genie!
Don’t you get charged for every SMS message? Here in Europe I’m grumpy everytime I need to send an SMS, because I’m being charged for something that is completely free through the internet. Not to mention that due to our local characters, an SMS is only 70 chars long.
That explains it, then. Here it costs around 11 US cents per message. So if you are messaging a lot, they will add up at the end of the billing period.
I hear this all the time, but to be fair it wasn’t even them. It was Google putting up “framework defenses” (with RCS, and now they’re doing the same with the native Android phone dialer).
Where Signal dropped the ball was their marketing: it was as easy as picking up their old app (TextSecure) so that they didn’t have to worry about feature clash with current Signal, then rebrand this old app as “Signal SMS” and boom, instant adoption because it’d be fairly trivial to “migrate”. And they get to steal the thunder from the apps that slowed down development.
They synchronization is my main problem of signal. When I’m changing devices or stuff like that and I have to do a manual backup to get Signal back…with other services like Telegram what’s up whatever, you instant get your chats up again.
So me and my wife switched back to Telegram.
I badly want to use Signal as my main communication but sync and horrible search options makes it harder to sell.
The sync might be a problem pretty much because this is not a cloud sync but a local sync. Your phone or desktop has to be online to be able to sync. Unlike telegram which stores all your messages, signal doesnt, thus needing a local sync system.
Or I can continue not using it like everyone else. It’s Signal’s responsibility to attract users, not mine. I’m all for it if they can gain adoption but I’m not investing any effort into helping them without pay
I wonder what part of Signal sucks? Why do people hate things that try to protect your privacy, yet care about privacy when the time comes and bitch about it.
The UX is nice and modern, better than iMessage and other messaging apps I’ve used. Scheduling messages, group chats allow people to come and go (mod approved) all seem more modern than other chat apps
UI is bad imo, lack of SMS is a complete disqualifier, nobody else I know uses the platform so I’m using it for one group chat only, notifications don’t work properly.
To be fair, I would be very surprised if Instagram had SMS support
Fair, but most (non militantly privacy focused) people have Instagram and it does have dual purpose.
But I also use iMessage for all group chats anyways and will likely continue to do so.
There’s definitely a middle ground of people who are content with insecure but private communications who don’t want to post on social media
I think the UI is perfect, it’s simple and intuitive. The fact that they removed support for SMS is a bummer, sure. I’ve had issues with notifications before, but I haven’t missed any in months. Facebook Messenger (which I’ve fully replaced with Signal) was however a puring pile of shit when it came to sending notifications in time - just like Teams and Ops Genie!
Why is the UI bad?
Why do you need SMS? Is this the 90s?
Why don’t you feel the notifications work?
Of course nobody will switch if this is how you feel.
Too cluttered
SMS is a requirement here in the states
I’ve missed multiple sets of messages due to poor notifications on the more privacy focused apps
Don’t you get charged for every SMS message? Here in Europe I’m grumpy everytime I need to send an SMS, because I’m being charged for something that is completely free through the internet. Not to mention that due to our local characters, an SMS is only 70 chars long.
Nope, SMS is free in pretty much all phone plans here in the states
That explains it, then. Here it costs around 11 US cents per message. So if you are messaging a lot, they will add up at the end of the billing period.
They have a guide to fix notifications. It’s an issue with the device’s configuration not Signal itself.
I’ve never had a notification not come in.
For me it was when they removed support of SMS.
I hear this all the time, but to be fair it wasn’t even them. It was Google putting up “framework defenses” (with RCS, and now they’re doing the same with the native Android phone dialer).
Where Signal dropped the ball was their marketing: it was as easy as picking up their old app (TextSecure) so that they didn’t have to worry about feature clash with current Signal, then rebrand this old app as “Signal SMS” and boom, instant adoption because it’d be fairly trivial to “migrate”. And they get to steal the thunder from the apps that slowed down development.
They synchronization is my main problem of signal. When I’m changing devices or stuff like that and I have to do a manual backup to get Signal back…with other services like Telegram what’s up whatever, you instant get your chats up again.
So me and my wife switched back to Telegram. I badly want to use Signal as my main communication but sync and horrible search options makes it harder to sell.
The sync might be a problem pretty much because this is not a cloud sync but a local sync. Your phone or desktop has to be online to be able to sync. Unlike telegram which stores all your messages, signal doesnt, thus needing a local sync system.
That’s all well and good but does nothing to address the user’s need for sync
For that, you will need to complain to Signal’s team in their community.
Or I can continue not using it like everyone else. It’s Signal’s responsibility to attract users, not mine. I’m all for it if they can gain adoption but I’m not investing any effort into helping them without pay