Comment by metalliqaz
2 years ago
Stickers are more important because just like every other tech company, growth is the only way to stay in business. You can just run a business on delivering a good product to your customers anymore. You have to grow constantly, which means bringing in new customers which, by definition, aren't part of the core user base. It's gross and depressing and it enshitifies everything
>You can just run a business on delivering a good product to your customers anymore.
Who said Signal was a good product to begin with? And who though adding sticker would improve market share?
Casual users value UX and porting their chat history and VoIP calling vastly more than they value E-2-E encryption. You can't talk about growth when you fail to deliver on these fronts first. That's how Telegram and WhatsApps rule the market.
Adding stickers won't move the userbase needle when you already lost your potential users at the lack of chat history and UX.
> And who though adding sticker would improve market share?
My daughter loves stickers.
That's not the point. The point is if stickers make people love Signal. Sticker are popular on other platforms as well but because those platforms are popular not because they have stickers.
What fantasy land are you posting from? Signal has 40 million users as of 2022 (this was the first stat I found on a quick DDG search, which is all the effort your post deserves).
Also: "Who said Signal was a good product to begin with?" LOL. Just read the comments on this link bro.
> Signal has 40 million users as of 2022
How does Signal count it's active userbase? Like I said, me and almost everyone else I know have it installed but don't regularly use it because most people don't really like it versus the established Telegram and Whatsapp.
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