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Signal Sucks, Actually When I first installed Signal in the second half of 2023 to stay in touch with a few friends who had recently switched, it did not support message edits. This completely broke the way I used instant messengers. At that point, editing messages was a widely deployed feature across other instant messaging clients. Conversations had supported it since February 20161 and I had acquired a habit of typing a message, sending it, and only then reading it again and checking for typos. The lack of such an essential feature caused me to send incomprehensible messages, making the app almost unusable for me. Signal forced me to adapt and change my habits.


Xmpp/conversations has little to sell. That is different than free to use. I mean there is no big daddy spending money to get traction to earn something back. And the bid daddies push people to use other network they can seize. That is the number 1 reason for me. Otherwise they would have helped improving xmpp in the open. Same problem as libreoffice and mastodon