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.
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.
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.
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
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.
in my country too. and whats irritating is that most businesses and government services use it too . instead of, you know, improving their websites?
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.
Same. It sucks, but everyone is using it. Can’t not use it either, as work demands it too.
I’m so glad my country is switching from WhatsApp to Telegram, fortunately all my contacts already switched over
How is this even possible? Does your country have a mandated chat app?
May I ask which country is that?
Brazilian?
Mexican.
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.
How about Signal?
I use Telegram, and I have heard some nice things about Signal.
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.
👀🍿Oop