ditto. :I

Less memory usage, more consistent, and very simplistic.

Also you can block people, but I don't believe you can do that until they've messaged to you which I can understand can be annoying.

Simply put, it's just for a chat and chat alone without all the additional crap that Skype tends to include which slows up your PC and your phone

Alright, that's understandable

I guess

Still a bummer about the whole "No blocking until they've sent you a jillion links."

you can block ppl by going to thier profile and click block unless its a group

But, again, that only applies to people I would want to block, but I'm not going to go to every profile in existence and just auto block all of them.

Mainly for the stickers, no ads like Skype, easier to use

Apparently it is good for privacy, as Isil is alleged to have planned a few attacks using it.
My personal gripe is that it shows pictures automatically, which is no good when dealing with unvetted potential customers who happen to have no restraint when presenting examples of subject matter.

Nice try, I saw that first message

Not nice enough, evidently! However, the second message contains the first! I thought it more efficient to add on to it than make a new reply.

Passwords are insecure. It uses your phone number because only you have access to that. It is primarily a phone messenger, if you want it to be more PC like, use Pidgin and telegram-purple.

Unless someone takes your phone..

Well yeah, but there is a way to remotely log out.

There is a buddy list as well, which is admittedly a pain. I never figured out how to do it from PC, but on android you "Share my contact" and they can add you that way. Or vice versa.

No calling I never saw as an issue, I never understood why all the IMs were adding that.

But ultimately if you don't like it, why have it?

Lightweight simple messenger that is what you want from skype. But not Skype, essentially.

I.e. skype. When active, eats almost 50% lf my battery just from being started on my phone over the course of a few hours. Telegram, however, runs nearly 2 days with me needing to charge, as an example.

telegram's bigest selling point as i understand it is the fact they encrypte all data sent thru it from one end to the other, your information cannot be read in transit by anyone, so if you need to tell someone something that you absolutely must be sure nobody else can read, telegram is what you want to use. iirc anyway i may be remembering wrong

On the phone its pretty great but its a little hard to handle on the desktop
but i love it for the gifs, stickers and bots personally haha

Stickers, gifs, inline images, extensive emoji support, link parsing, privacy, excellent mobile client, High-DPI capable, rapid and responsive development of new features, and open source.

It's also completely free.

Stickers alone are one of the greatest innovations in chatting since ICQ invented the instant messenger.

If you were under the impression Skype is secure: http://www.zdnet.com/article/1168-k.....chinese-users/

Oh I didn't ever say skype was secure.

What's an Emoji?

Emoji: 🍒❤️👌🍆💯😂💀😈🍓🍌😘✨

They barely work at all Skype, AIM, etc.

You mean Emoticon? Those are Emoticons.

Emoticons are when you make a picture using several text characters at once, like :) or ^_^
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

Emoji are unique characters that are depicted as a graphical image, like these cherries. 🍒
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

Yeah I just looked all that up.

Must be a new thing for 2016, because I've never heard the word "Emoji" before in my life, they were always called Emoticons.

And things like ":3" never had a name, it was just text.

Haha, pretty old, not 2006 kitty fox, I heard it hundreds of times

Yeah I was being sarcastic, lol

Emoji
Definition: A word created because the word emoticon became too widely used.
Similar to how "Guestimate" became a word because people felt estimate and guess were being used too much.

<--- Not a fan of stupid portmanteaus or hipster words.

Emoji is a Japanese phrase. The idea of pictographs was originally a feature of Japanese smartphones. Later it got picked up by the iPhone, and it spread from there, but they kept the Japanese name.

telegram is not much a skype replacement but a whatsapp replacement
Its much more secure than whatsapp (end to end encryption) and it has adorable stickers.

Never used it. So I guess it must be something like wearing shoes in the house, or using imperial system instead of metric... scratch the last one, imperial system has no advantages, it's built entirely on hobo science from garbage.

I tried saying your username like 4 times before I finally got it. My mind kept reading it as Jigglypuff

You do that, I like it

Discord is what I am switching to. So much better than Skype, IMO. ^w^

its a whatsapp replacement. it also allready got so many furry themed chat channels with many people in it (even different vore channels) that it feel like a new IRC for phones. which is a good thing. http://www.furry-telegram-groups.net/ (for example there is a furry vore channel with 300 people, another vore chat with 150 people and a pokemon vore chat with like 40 people. eurofurence (biggest german con) has official chat rooms sfw and nsfw with over thousands of users in it) it is literal IRC+whatsapp fused + more fun features.

there are settings for everything, block unknown users, block online status. buddy list is also possible. but mainly on the phone.
i would say the computer client is just for people that also own the phone version. its also secure enough, they send you a code per sms if you want to log in and you can even set multiple more security settings.

stickers you can draw yourself, animated gifs instant when posted, and fluid picture and sharing options makes telegram for the phone super fun and its my fav over all other phone messangers.
every sticker set and gif can be shared instant and copied at sight - its super fun and viral.

seems like a lot people just take a 5 minute look at a cheap computer version and than hate it and uninstall. sorry but its actaully the most fun messanger i ever had.

if you want to voice chat u stick with skype or discord. its not a stand alone messanger. but the best for what i like it. i got skype and telegram on my phone for example.

Skype or GTFO

i really feel the same with KiK or ... w/e its called.
i mean seriously. im not going to get another skype when i already have one. I have enough messengers to take care of xD

to be fair with all the shit skype is being trowing at me , i been shifting to discord wich is skype with a few things extras like sub channels and no need to calls and etc..

even so , skype is being and will be my main messanger app at least on my pc. just beacuse im use to it and everyone use it

Like others said, Telegram is a replacement for Whatsapp, not Skype. I also committed the mistake at first to try to use it to replace Skype and failed.

Discord, in the other hand, while it's still immature and still lacks a lot of features due to its short age (like changing the font size or sorting your friends in groups), does try to be a replacement for both Skype and TeamSpeak.

That said, I can't wait 'til people move out from Skype. I don't like it.
I remember my old MSN Messenger and I wish I had that back. lol

As far as I know, most of what it has going for it are custom stickers, two-way encryption, and a extremely generous donation from a private investor that allows it to not have ads, for now. I haven't used it, but that's what I know about it.