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Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right by pgt on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:53AM (#26098965)
I have four messaging clients running on my desktop: Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp & Slack. It's not dead.
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Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right by hoseja on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:11AM (#26099354)
How many of those have full functionality? I know that WhatsApp is just a client for the mobile app, without voice and video.
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Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right by Nux on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:15AM (#26099685)
Signal and Telegram include audio/video functionality on the desktop.

Also, not sure what they do to it (no Electron?), but Telegram feels super fast, really pleasant experience.

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Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right by darkfirefly on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:20AM (#26099709)
The fact that Telegram is a Qt app that looks nice and is lightweight makes it really good; it's just a shame it's centralised.

Almost any other messaging platform is dominated by Electron clients (bar the few very WIP Matrix clients such as Neochat).

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Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right by adsche on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:09AM (#26099656)
It has voice and video now (marked 'beta' and only for 1-to-1 calls).

But I agree, all of these clients suck in their own way. :(

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Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right by oblio on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:30PM (#26106691)
Slack is an Electron app. It's basically their website on top of a bundled browser.

I don't know about the others. Are any of them native?

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