Comment by Dddd50000

Signal could be more tolerable if they did not threaten and harass those who develop third-party clients, citing their unreasoned claims that they somehow "burden" them (1). They cannot demand pull requests if they treat the community like that. Depending on the locale, even frivolous lawsuits can be a real nuisance.

1) https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

Encryption is also not the only thing that matters. Amateurish functionality omissions are really annoying. For example, in 2015, Signal developers removed the option to create, join or leave groups in the desktop client (2), and they apparently haven't still fixed it. They don't want, nor does anyone else. Maybe a less hostile approach towards community would yield better results.

2) https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/530

While I agree with you that this Matrix e2ee thing has took way, way too long, let's not pretend that everything happens at time in those walled garden systems...