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9 years ago
Harken, my subjects!
TL;DR: I'm [at]etheras on Telegram. Feel free to add!
I tried Telegram years ago, and I think its just awful. So awful in-fact that I left Telegram within the first couple hours. (Although it took several days before they would actually let me leave. Despite their claims of account deletion being easy, they give you quite the runaround).
However, last night I have (reluctantly) accepted that Telegram seems to be the "next big thing". So I re-joined last night. If you're interested in adding me, I'm [at]etheras
And I'm sure that most of you are not wondering why I hate the shit out of Telegram, but for those of you who want to hear fennecs complaining, I'll lay out in detail their many failings.
1. Their vaunted anonymity is nonsense. Anyone with your number in their contact list can find out all kinds of stuff about you through Telegram without your consent or even your knowledge. Furthermore (and this was what caused me to quit), because your profile is attached to your phone number, there's no way to multi-profile without multiple phones. I use my regular phone number for both RL and Furry stuff, but I want to keep my real life and furry life separate. With Telegram, there's no way to hide a secret life. Either you have to let your RL friends, family, co-workers that you're a furry, or you must give away your real identity to furs.
2. The UI is terrible. I get that they're trying for a really minimalist UI, but there are certain conventions established by the industry that UI designers re-use to make it intuitive, and those things are pretty-much thrown out the window. Like in the Web client Settings > Edit changes your name. (Lol wut?) Settings > then Clicking on your avatar zooms into your avatar (rather than changing it). To leave a group chat you have to go up to the title and click that, then select from a dropdown. If these guys had any js/css prowess, they'd have put it on a context click on the group rather than falling through to the browser default context click.
3. A lot of the emotes are huge an obnoxious
4. ANOTHER IM client? I just got through migrating all my friends on to Skype or Steam. I want fewer IM clients, not more.
Anyway, I probably won't be on Telegram much (because I strongly dislike it, and there's no way I'm ever installing it on my phone) but I'll pop on from time to time if anyone wants to chat up The Galactic Overlord.
Cheers,
~ Lord Etheras
TL;DR: I'm [at]etheras on Telegram. Feel free to add!
I tried Telegram years ago, and I think its just awful. So awful in-fact that I left Telegram within the first couple hours. (Although it took several days before they would actually let me leave. Despite their claims of account deletion being easy, they give you quite the runaround).
However, last night I have (reluctantly) accepted that Telegram seems to be the "next big thing". So I re-joined last night. If you're interested in adding me, I'm [at]etheras
And I'm sure that most of you are not wondering why I hate the shit out of Telegram, but for those of you who want to hear fennecs complaining, I'll lay out in detail their many failings.
1. Their vaunted anonymity is nonsense. Anyone with your number in their contact list can find out all kinds of stuff about you through Telegram without your consent or even your knowledge. Furthermore (and this was what caused me to quit), because your profile is attached to your phone number, there's no way to multi-profile without multiple phones. I use my regular phone number for both RL and Furry stuff, but I want to keep my real life and furry life separate. With Telegram, there's no way to hide a secret life. Either you have to let your RL friends, family, co-workers that you're a furry, or you must give away your real identity to furs.
2. The UI is terrible. I get that they're trying for a really minimalist UI, but there are certain conventions established by the industry that UI designers re-use to make it intuitive, and those things are pretty-much thrown out the window. Like in the Web client Settings > Edit changes your name. (Lol wut?) Settings > then Clicking on your avatar zooms into your avatar (rather than changing it). To leave a group chat you have to go up to the title and click that, then select from a dropdown. If these guys had any js/css prowess, they'd have put it on a context click on the group rather than falling through to the browser default context click.
3. A lot of the emotes are huge an obnoxious
4. ANOTHER IM client? I just got through migrating all my friends on to Skype or Steam. I want fewer IM clients, not more.
Anyway, I probably won't be on Telegram much (because I strongly dislike it, and there's no way I'm ever installing it on my phone) but I'll pop on from time to time if anyone wants to chat up The Galactic Overlord.
Cheers,
~ Lord Etheras
And for what its worth the mobile version of telegram is better the the PC version while the PC version of skype is better then the mobile version, so its really just a matter of preference on various variables
I use Telegram just for furry contacts for this reason.
Still, try to think in big numbers. Very few people compared to all users need to compartmentalize their life. Out of 50M active Telegram users, there's maybe 5.000 furries and 15.000 non-furry sexual fetishists and exhibitionists, that's less than 0.5%. Why add minority features which will complicate the interface and make things slightly bit harder for the majority?
Out of all the people I know that aren't computer-savy users, less than 5% can memorize a password, not to mention complex things like opening an account and setting up actually secure messaging apps, P2P or XMPP+OTR-based.