Signal Desktop
I&#x27;m feeling dirty, because I don&#x27;t like to be that negative, especially if we&#x27;re talking open-source software. And I feel that I kinda hold this project to higher standards: If I compare this to WhatsApp&#x2F;Telegram&#x2F;Threema&#x2F;Whatever, I inheritently, somewhat subconciously expect more from Signal.<p>And I&#x27;m disappointed. I tend to repeat the &#x27;central server&#x27; and &#x27;a phone number is not an address and not public information, it certainly is no identity&#x27; criticism.<p>When I read the headline&#x2F;title, I thought &#x27;Now maybe that would be enough to be ~good enough~ to ditch Telegram&#x27; in spite of these problems (which Telegram has as well, ofc). But really. A Chrome app. And works only (yeah, I think I said it before: Phone numbers suck) as a secondary client. And only if the first client is Android?<p>I seriously don&#x27;t get it. And it certainly is not for me: I don&#x27;t like that browser (I do have it installed for testing and to follow it at times, but there&#x27;s no &#x27;app&#x27; I&#x27;d run in Chrome). I don&#x27;t want to tie something to my phone and I don&#x27;t think that it should matter what platform my handset runs on - SailfishOS looks nice, FxOS progresses slow but ticks a good number of boxes for me.<p>Full circle to the first line: I don&#x27;t _like_ to be negative and the headline gave me hope for a couple seconds. Unfortunately this release just deepened my belief that Signal wasn&#x27;t meant to be for me.