It's both funny and sad. I just ignored the existence of the Chrome app, and am trying my best to ignore the fact that they thought it was such a great idea in the first place. To be fair, in that comment he wrote “browser” won the desktop not “Chrome”. But maybe that's probably even more farcical because “browser winning the desktop” means they should have made a regular web application, not a damn Chrome app. And the whole idea of making an app like Signal in a browser... let's say I'm just glad something like Tarsnap, for example, isn't run by Signal people.

I like Signal, and I depend on it, and wan't it to be successful, but oh boy are people running it full of misplaced hubris. A lot critique is dismissed just like in the thread you link: “we wan't to stop mass surveillance”. “But Moxie, change X makes Signal less useful/less secure for a lot of people who really need it!”, “We're glad you're an irrelevant geek, but we wan't to end mass surveillance”... Implying they're making Signal approachable to “masses”. But they aren't, partly because proper security will never (for various values of “never”) be approachable to disinterested masses, and partly because they pull some ideas on usability out of their ass.