This reply is mainly intended for Moxie and the team developing Signal as feedback (which they probably have received from others). I&#x27;m not going to focus on security, because Signal is likely <i>the best</i> on that front from whatever I have read.<p>I really want Signal to be my only app for chats and I do try Signal once in a while, but I always go back to Telegram for a few reasons. Telegram is <i>very fast</i> in delivering messages, just like it claims. Signal, on the other hand, has been and continues to be slow. Messages could sometimes take anywhere from 10 seconds to even a minute or several minutes to get delivered. That&#x27;s not really a good UX for chats when you can&#x27;t say whether your message would get delivered or not. If I wanted to send a slightly urgent message (urgent enough to be a message but not urgent enough to be a call), I wouldn&#x27;t rely on the current implementation of Signal. Back and forth communication also becomes very odd and frustrating if the messages don&#x27;t get delivered within a few seconds. Even SMS seems better when compared to Signal&#x27;s speed of message delivery.<p>Next is the multi-device availability and syncing of conversations in Telegram. Once you get used to having Telegram on the desktop&#x2F;laptop and phone (and perhaps a tablet), it fits in so well with the physical location someone is in, what the person is doing and which device the person feels comfortable with. There are many people who have deep and heavy conversations on these chat apps, and doing that on a small screen&#x27;s touch keyboard is a big hindrance. Being able to do that with a laptop or a desktop makes it so superior an experience that it&#x27;s difficult to give that up.<p>People that I chat with either don&#x27;t know much about encryption and privacy or don&#x27;t care much about those. Getting some of them to use Telegram instead of WhatsApp was difficult, but they&#x27;re now big fans of Telegram because of how it works and what it provides. But getting them to move to Signal? I can&#x27;t imagine doing that with the current state of affairs with Signal.<p>While Signal may be a very secure chat app, not focusing on the things that help increase UX (and in turn, market share) will not help in the long run.<p>My hope and wish is that Signal development would accelerate faster and provide quicker releases that solve what I see as fundamental issues. This would benefit everyone and make our world a much better place.