Same here, the app has way better features than WhatsApp, which of course is the obvious alternative. Signal is supposedly very good and has a desktop app to match, but no Windows Phone client makes it a deal breaker for me
Re:Telegram is down
by on_and_off on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:07AM
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I purposefully did not name WhatsApp.
I use it of course and as far as the clients go, they are ok.
I trust its owners less and less with each passing day though.
Likewise. I detest the organisation and everything they stand for. And yet, i have to use it, because lots of my didn't family are on WhatsApp and not on telegram
Re:Telegram is down
by reitanqild on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:54AM
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Took a few months but my family is now on Telegrams.
They were the last of my groups to migrate.
The macos native app is nice, but I personally still have to use the universal (Electron-based, I guess) version, because I couldn't find a way to make the native app display unread count on the system tray icon. Is it just me or it really doesn't do that?
I have come to love Telegram. Its mobile client is impeccable, which is all the more impressive after you look at its open source code..
Web and native osX clients are just as great (the OsX client is even a great example of a native app done well).
And sadly, not being owned by FAAMG is a big plus nowadays.
If the worst happens and Telegram is definitively down, what do you suggest I use to replace it ?