Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage

Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by 14 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:51AM (#19389186)

I really wish I could see this visual flare you are talking about as in if you could post some images I would buy it. I am honestly sitting here and thinking about what exactly flare might look like in a messaging app and I can’t really come up with an answer. Is it a color scheme? The layout of the buttons? Signal to me seems like many of the other messaging apps all much the same maybe slightly different in layout. I go to my messaging app to send a message. What is this flare you say is important to you? Genuine question here. Thanks

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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by Frondo on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:23AM (#19389458)

Again, if visual flair isn't important to you, then fine, it isn't important to you. It's important to me -- I like my stuff to look subjectively "nice" and

Here's Signal:

https://imagebin.ca/v/4aAU1ai9CG8D

And Telegram:

https://imagebin.ca/v/4aAUJhRmj8Jx

Signal is white (and no night mode on IOS), the bubbles are undecorated rounded rectangles, there's no background and no option to set one, no stickers, no option to set disappearing messages on the fly, no indicator of when the person was last online. It looks plain.

Telegram has a night mode, options to set background colors, chat messages. It doesn't look plain.

As I've said, if you don't care whether something looks plain, then that is absolutely great and entirely up to you. Lots of people don't care about lots of things and there's really nothing wrong with that.

I like my apps to look nice (and I can, within broad strokes, define what "looks nice" is) and I know this isn't a unique position I occupy.

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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by zimpenfish on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:50AM (#19390347)

> Signal is white (and no night mode on IOS)

In Settings, there's a moon in the top right which toggles light/dark modes. This is v2.37.1.0 but the release notes list dark mode as appearing in v2.30.2 which is about 4 months ago.

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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by 14 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:55AM (#19390398)

Thank you for taking the time to reply. That definitely helps show what you mean. I think for me the biggest issue lately has been I use a night mode and never really noticed signal is missing it though I only use signal with one contact but if I did use it more I think it would have come to my attention. I have always been a kind of minimalist with themes but in the examples you provided I definitely feel the one with trees is easier on my eyes. Thanks again.

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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by Frondo on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:33PM (#19390842)

You're welcome, and I apologize for being a bit tetchy.

And you said it perfectly -- it's easier on the eyes, and I don't think it's one single thing, but several little touches.

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