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Signal’s desktop app is as horrendously unusably bad as the project as a whole is good, tbh.

It’s no wonder people prefer stuff like Telegram. It has native apps and all. Or can be used in a browser. Meanwhile Signal is only used in a browser, but you have to download it and it fucks up font scaling and it shits the bed on font antialiasing and it can’t even get UI design consistent with the OS it’s running on and it won’t even use the OS emoji font.

Let’s not even mention how you still cannot use Signal on a tablet.

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PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Signal’s desktop app is as horrendously unusably bad

I think this is a bit dramatic. I’ve been using it for years, no problems.

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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, I was going to say that I’ve used Signal on my Linux laptop and it’s janky af

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- tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Care to elaborate?
  
  I use the app from the AUR and I don’t think I’ve had a single problem in 3 years.
  
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’ve recently had issues where it wasn’t let me paste anything that I had copied from outside the app
    
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lengau@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The best version of the Signal app was back when it was available as an actual web app.

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vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
telegram has an advantage of not having e2e encryption default which makes stuff like sync much easier as chats are fully stored on the server, encrypted with your user password. and if you enable encryption, chats stop getting synced

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amelia@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
And anytime you clicked on a link or image in the chat, you’ll have to click into the message field again (or press Ctrl+t) to be able to type a reply. I don’t understand how this absolutely infuriating thing hasn’t been fixed in years. Is nobody bothered by this? I want to be able to alt+tab into signal and just start typing ffs.

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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

it won’t even use the OS emoji font.

im still amused by the fact that discord mobile uses two yes, you read that correctly, TWO emojis sets, it uses one in app, and the selector, and then uses another for the text input line, because.

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