lj·rk on Nostr: Tbf, most people I know (including me) who also use Tg don't use it because of their ...
Tbf, most people I know (including me) who also use Tg don't use it because of their encryption but because the app is much faster and has better UX :~
I'm till annoyed at Signal for all those little things like enabling "jumbo emojis" but not offering a setting for that to disable it. Since it's open source I probably should contribute it but after many many 2nd hand interactions with the dev team I really don't want to any more. The Signal GitHub is probably one of the most toxic places for discussion. I've seen things shut down like: Local-only customization options, improved reproducibility, alternative clients/publishing, regular release of server source code, etc.
Often a reason was given but when contributors wanted to find solutions for that problem the thread was locked and moved to a discussion space where nothing happens except for "oh, we had this discussion 100 times already". I'm glad Signal, at least, now allows push notifications outside of Google Services.
I'll still use Signal primarily, but it's "open source" only de jure and mostly just source available and trying to contribute to it is just traumatizing. Which is really sad.
I'm till annoyed at Signal for all those little things like enabling "jumbo emojis" but not offering a setting for that to disable it. Since it's open source I probably should contribute it but after many many 2nd hand interactions with the dev team I really don't want to any more. The Signal GitHub is probably one of the most toxic places for discussion. I've seen things shut down like: Local-only customization options, improved reproducibility, alternative clients/publishing, regular release of server source code, etc.
Often a reason was given but when contributors wanted to find solutions for that problem the thread was locked and moved to a discussion space where nothing happens except for "oh, we had this discussion 100 times already". I'm glad Signal, at least, now allows push notifications outside of Google Services.
I'll still use Signal primarily, but it's "open source" only de jure and mostly just source available and trying to contribute to it is just traumatizing. Which is really sad.