Re:Telegram has now 100M Monthly Active Users
by pfg on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @05:46AM
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This. Telegram got a lot of things right. They have clients that work well on all platforms. Features like the Bot API and Channels have a lot of potential. However, their home-grown crypto and dismissal of feedback from the crypto community makes it hard for me to recommend it to anyone.
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Re:Telegram has now 100M Monthly Active Users
by hatsunearu on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:37AM
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The only thing that bothers me more than the homebrew crypto is their claims of security. False sense of security is worse than no security.
Re:Telegram has now 100M Monthly Active Users
by alexandrerond on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @05:47PM
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No one has cracked it, specially in the time they offered a $300.000 prize.
Re:Telegram has now 100M Monthly Active Users
by Khao on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:41AM
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So far Telegram has done everything right. They have awesome native apps on all the platforms, no stupid web-wrappers that are slow and buggy. I haven't had a single bug, it's always been extremely fast and reliable. This is what makes a truly great user experience.
Re:Telegram has now 100M Monthly Active Users
by oddvar on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:11AM
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it would be great if open source solutions like Telegram, Signal and Matrix (and others) would all interoperate. I work on Matrix (https://matrix,.org) but I don't really care which client you want to use - as long as we can still talk to each other!