This morning, my entire family either switched or said they already had a Signal account. Now we have a family Signal chat.
I expected resistance, not compliance! I’m very happy.
This morning, my entire family either switched or said they already had a Signal account. Now we have a family Signal chat.
I expected resistance, not compliance! I’m very happy.
My friends and I would love to switch to Signal but every time we try it we just find that the app isn’t very nice to use and a lot of functionality we have come to take for granted is missing. Has it improved recently or is that still the case?
What… What sort of functionality? I struggle to think of something it lacks as a messaging app…
I can imagine live location and stickers. Like all the stickers from WhatsApp can’t be transferred.
Live location is shared as needed. This means the app isn’t consciously transmitting your location, but you can send your location whenever you want by pressing the + then location. This design choice is more private.
As for the stickers, yes, your WhatsApp ones won’t transfer (unless something changed), but they have plenty premade packs to choose from and you can make your own sticker packs (super easy).
Well, I suppose. I’ve found that my keyboard has most of that, so I don’t need it in the apps I use.
I cannot find anything lacking in the app that exists in the default texting app. If you would like to provide specific examples, I can possibly give a better answer.
All the stickers you have in WhatsApp. For almost all my friends it’s one of the main thing that keeps them from switching. I also just noticed it doesn’t have live location.
I used a bot to transfer some in the past, it wasn’t the simplest solution but it exists. I don’t remember what it was called anymore unfortunately
Everywhere I’ve searched the solution is to transfer only one at a time.
I’ve never once used WhatsApp and … Honestly don’t really know what stickers are in this context.
For location, I wrote a whole paragraph that I then realized came from a place of privilege. I will acknowledge that that’s on me.
But what are stickers?
Stickers are quite big in some countries. They are slightly bigger emojis that use gifs or pics that people themselves can make. Some of my group chats are filled with memes with my friends faces on them. We communicate a lot through these. Make up our own moods and ways to express ourselves. When a new sticker is used in another group chat we sometimes find it so hilarious that we share it in another. WhatsApp makes it very difficult to transfer stickers away. You have to do it one by one.
Reddit, I know, but hereArchived link as an easy way to transfer your stickers from Whatsapp to Signal en masse.Edit. Changed reddit link to archived link.
About your comment: thank you for teaching me.
About what it says: I don’t know how best to express my frustration, so I’m just going to say … Actually I can’t even think of a positive way to share my thoughts.
It’s cool that you’re able to put yourself out there that way. It’s very upsetting that Meta gets to decide whether or how you do so.
I share your frustration, it’s yet another trick such that WhatsApp doesn’t have to compete.
Signal is easy to use, but I think mainly that some people might say that it’s “boring”. The motif and colour is not as jazzy and lighter as WhatsApp, and people like jazzy and light colours.