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I'm going to keep updating this post as I find things. I wouldn't call any of these bugs or issues quite yet, a lot of this makes sense if you think about any level of privacy in a chat client (or how some very very old ones worked), but they're different coming from Discord or Telegram.

All of these are citation needed as I've been using it for less than 24 hours as of time of posting. Again, if you already use Telegram, you should make a Signal. You already have a phone number set aside for messaging applications. Signal has desktop and mobile apps. Just use it, please.

Messages from new contacts don't show profile info

I'm not 100% on this one because I don't know if this person had a username set yet or not, but when you first message someone you should expect for it to say "Unknown Contact" with zero profile info. Easy solution: introduce yourself. You have to know you need to do it, of course, but once you do it's not a big deal.

That being said, stickers will not auto download from people that first message you either, so if you only send someone a sticker you'll just see the blurred, non downloaded version from an unknown contact. It looks very sus lol

EDIT: I've only had this issue with one user, everyone else I at least saw their display name when they messaged. May not be as big an issue as I thought.


You can't view people's discriminator

This is another "oh, that makes sense" kinda thing. You can view someone's username, but not the full username. So you can't tell another person to add username.number unless someone has actually told you the full username, and also not changed it.

This makes sense if you're into not being more discoverable. You can always just put your username up on a website (like cohost) if you want. But it's a quirk for sure.

More to come I'm sure. I need to find a group chat to use, if only to test how groups work.

First edit, like 1 hour after the first post idk

You can turn off read receipts and typing notifications

This is honestly a feature, but might seem like something is broken at first. Each user can set this, so some chats will have read receipts (filled in check bubbles) and some won't. Some will have typing notifications, and some won't. It makes sense for this to be a user side option, and if you don't like it you can always discuss it with the person that has it turned off. They are not turned off by default.

There's no last online time

Again this is basically a feature of the platform. But unlike Telegram, you have no option to turn it on. I do like Telegram's vague "well they were online sometime in the last week" just to know people are active, but I think active online statuses are probably more bad than good personally.

Sending images without compression is annoying

There's no "send original file" option for images. There is a 100mb file size limit, big enough for any reasonable image, but you'll have to put it in a zip or something to send it like that.

If you're curious, "high" media quality appears to be 3072px max, ~1MB filesize. "Standard" is 2048px max, 400 or 500k target filesize. Both jpg. This is all testing from desktop, YMMV on mobile.

On desktop, audio and video files are not recompressed. Probably as expected, it's a lot of compute to do so.

Seems to be a grab bag as to if filenames get preserved or not. Images seem to always get preserved, videos sometimes yes sometimes no, audio files probably not?


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