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Re:Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal by developer93 on Monday April 26, 2021 @06:14AM (#26941004)
I suppose the poster above you is referring to user experience - WhatsApp doesn't even have reactions, never mind the huge list of plugins that slack has. The only thing in favour of WhatsApp as a user is the encryption, which AFAIK slack just doesn't bother with (maybe that changed now).
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Re:Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal by lxgr on Monday April 26, 2021 @06:52AM (#26941201)
I‘m still not convinced that all of these user-facing features necessarily translate into a larger client codebase.

My guess is that WhatsApp (and Signal, Matrix etc.) client logic is much more complex, since so many things that are fairly easy to do server-side need to be reliably performed in the client instead once E2E encryption is introduced.

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