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It's my default and over a few years I've pretty much converted everyone in my life except my mom

>>AtHear+(OP)
Same for me as well. All my friends and family have been on it for a few years now

>>AtHear+(OP)
I convinced my parents because of full resolution images.

>>AtHear+(OP)
Sadly, my (65 year old) mum is the only one I managed to convince to use to Signal. All my (mid-30s) friends won't budge from WhatsApp.

>>nmfish+G7
Having 'Message me on Signal' as status message on WhatsApp and not replying to non-urgent messages from Whatsapp helped to covert some of my contacts.

>>AtHear+(OP)
Sadly, Signal neglects user experience, and as a result people around me all tend to migrate to WhatsApp.

They don't care that they are uploading their entire contact list to Facebook — "death before inconvenience".

>>jwr+zm
Honestly I don't really understand this. I'm a longtime signal user who installed whatsapp recently (family group I had to join) and.. It feels more or less the same to me. Maybe it's because I haven't allowed any unnecessary permissions, but I don't see much functionality that's different. Statuses maybe?

>>Abishe+3a
Nobody gave a shit about my status to contact me elswhwere. People just open the existing conversation and never see it anyway. And most don't care, or want to switch.

Whatsapp is THE messaging standard in my country. Hell, even our politicans use it for communication. "Apping" is even used by news outlets to describe communication by Whatsapp.

We used to have SMS and MSN. Now it's either Whatsapp or Messenger. Depending only on the fact if you have the others phone number or not.

>>smiche+es
I'm not using Signal as heavily as I was in the past (due to the fact that they dropped support for Chromeos), but issues that I personally was annoyed by:

- message delivery was not very reliable when your connection is poor and intermittent (think wifi in the underground between stations)

- when you need to resend a message in a group, you need to tap "retry" once for every recipient in the group

Issues that my friends complained about, justifying their non-use of Signal:

- you cannot create links to allow people to join groups (obviously this is a nonstarter, without first allowing people to be in groups pseudonymously)

>>jwr+zm
Signal cares so much about UX that they're starting to agitate security/privacy diehards. They've implemented features like stickers and message reactions that the diehard community calls "useless". And they recently implemented PINs with the intention of storing your encrypted profile and settings for easy recovery on a new device.

I applaud the direction they've taken. These are the kinds of features that will acquire and retain a broader user base.

>>whiske+cf1
I recently stopped using Signal over the PIN thing. I do not want them to store my data on their servers, but they won't let me opt out.

>>jwr+zm
Actually WhatsApp only uploads numbers. Ironically, Signal is contemplating uploading your full address book to their cloud for “easy recovery”. Which is a nightmare if they follow through with it.