• kratoz29@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Whatsapp is the Internet Explorer of the messaging apps, change my mind.

    And it sucks that is the main form of communication in my country

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      1 year ago

      I’d argue Facebook messenger is the IE of messaging apps. It’s worse than WhatsApp in possibly every way, and it’s the main form of communication in my country.

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        1 year ago

        in my country too. and whats irritating is that most businesses and government services use it too . instead of, you know, improving their websites?

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        1 year ago

        Really?

        That sucks for sure, gladly everyone here doesn’t use it at all, I think I have only talked through there to business supports and stuff like that.

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      1 year ago

      I’m so glad my country is switching from WhatsApp to Telegram, fortunately all my contacts already switched over

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      1 year ago

      Curious what you use instead? Been looking for something that’s convenient to use, full resolution pictures and videos, desktop apps, etc. Sadly, WhatsApp is currently my leading choice with this news.

      Family currently uses Google Chat and it’s pretty terrible. Buggy on iPhone and no desktop app.

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        1 year ago

        Signal is a great alternative to WhatsApp. Images sent aren’t going to be full quality and will go through some compression of course, but the final sent picture is still going to be leaps and bounds over the garbage that WhatsApp sends. When going through old pictures on my camera roll, I can instantly tell what was sent/saved over WhatsApp compared to Signal due to just how pixelated it gets.

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    1 year ago

    I mean… Couldn’t you always just send them as a file when image quality mattered?

  • catapult7724@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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    1 year ago

    WhatsApp takes so long to implement basic features that all of its competitors has that I’m convinced that its codebase is a horror show and breaks every convention there is, and every features requires a full rewrite of a core part of the service.