Comment by palata
15 hours ago
Maybe I'm old, but there is nothing I use in WhatsApp that does not exist in Signal. What are you missing there?
15 hours ago
Maybe I'm old, but there is nothing I use in WhatsApp that does not exist in Signal. What are you missing there?
Various group features like communities and group voice chats, public channels, voice message transcription, only three sticker packs and no obvious way to add my own, backup is still marked as beta in 2026, no business features while all business here use WhatsApp in one way or another…
I don't use any of the other features (in fact, I actively avoid them and would disable them if they ever came to Signal), but:
> only three sticker packs and no obvious way to add my own
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360031836512-St...
> backup is still marked as beta
Also, local backups haven't been beta for ages. The free cloud backups are the ones that are new.
But we're talking about mass adoption, not Hacker News users' preferences. Signal simply doesn't offer anything attractive to most people.
As someone who spends a dozen hours on WhatsApp and Telegram each week, I don't see any real benefits either.
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