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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by cosarara on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:22AM (#19388210)
Bad integration with contacts sounds pretty serious.
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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by roel_v on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:43AM (#19388312)
Well yeah but it's not the mess the gp alludes to.
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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by kekebo on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:56AM (#19388383)
plus Signal doesn't store all your contacts on their server as Telegram and WhatsApp do
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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by roel_v on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:26PM (#19394946)
Do you mean that as a positive or a negative thing?

Also, apart from what I mentioned above, I've also found out that with Signal it's very hard to transfer your chat history to another phone. (involves manually copying over a backup, entering 30 char key). I can't in good conscience recommend an app like that as a replacement to anyone, so I guess my Signal experiment will be short-lived.

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