<story><title>Poll: Switching from WhatsApp</title><text>So many choices, so much discussion.  Looking for the &amp;quot;Wisdom of the Crowd&amp;quot; from the HN community. Other options in the comments would be welcome</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s about time someone made a unified messenger client that combines all these conversations and hides the detail of which service you are using to talk to friends.</text></item><item><author>pelasaco</author><text>if with Telegram &amp;quot;the privacy, security, and governance story is not great though&amp;quot;, why would you migrate from WhatsApp to Telegram in first place? I personally have all 3 (Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram) and use all three with different groups and scenarios.&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;p&gt;- With my mom and grandmom: WhatsApp&lt;p&gt;- Group of friends from jiu-jitsu: WhatsApp&lt;p&gt;- Work Colleagues and friends working with Network Security: Signal&lt;p&gt;- Notifications from services that I run like weather station, waves forecast, how full my gym is right now, some other batch services that I have: Telegram&lt;p&gt;There is no reason to be radical here. We have options, and that&amp;#x27;s great!</text></item><item><author>Lazare</author><text>Telegram is a great IM &lt;i&gt;experience&lt;/i&gt;. The client is good, feature set is good, the stickers are amusing (if you&amp;#x27;re into that kind of thing), the feature set is complete and everything is polished. Telegram is, I think, going to be one of the easier sells if you&amp;#x27;re trying to convince non-technical users to switch from WhatsApp or FB Messenger.&lt;p&gt;The privacy, security, and governance story is not great though. If you care about such things, I think Signal wins hands down. And the UX is fine, just not quite as good as Telegram in my view.&lt;p&gt;(A third option not in your poll that might be worth evaluating is Wickr. I haven&amp;#x27;t used it personally, but I&amp;#x27;ve seen it come up in these sorts of discussions.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mightytightywty</author><text>It&amp;#x27;ll take some setting up, but matrix may suit your needs: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;matrix.org&amp;#x2F;bridges&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;matrix.org&amp;#x2F;bridges&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Poll: Switching from WhatsApp</title><text>So many choices, so much discussion.  Looking for the &amp;quot;Wisdom of the Crowd&amp;quot; from the HN community. Other options in the comments would be welcome</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s about time someone made a unified messenger client that combines all these conversations and hides the detail of which service you are using to talk to friends.</text></item><item><author>pelasaco</author><text>if with Telegram &amp;quot;the privacy, security, and governance story is not great though&amp;quot;, why would you migrate from WhatsApp to Telegram in first place? I personally have all 3 (Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram) and use all three with different groups and scenarios.&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;p&gt;- With my mom and grandmom: WhatsApp&lt;p&gt;- Group of friends from jiu-jitsu: WhatsApp&lt;p&gt;- Work Colleagues and friends working with Network Security: Signal&lt;p&gt;- Notifications from services that I run like weather station, waves forecast, how full my gym is right now, some other batch services that I have: Telegram&lt;p&gt;There is no reason to be radical here. We have options, and that&amp;#x27;s great!</text></item><item><author>Lazare</author><text>Telegram is a great IM &lt;i&gt;experience&lt;/i&gt;. The client is good, feature set is good, the stickers are amusing (if you&amp;#x27;re into that kind of thing), the feature set is complete and everything is polished. Telegram is, I think, going to be one of the easier sells if you&amp;#x27;re trying to convince non-technical users to switch from WhatsApp or FB Messenger.&lt;p&gt;The privacy, security, and governance story is not great though. If you care about such things, I think Signal wins hands down. And the UX is fine, just not quite as good as Telegram in my view.&lt;p&gt;(A third option not in your poll that might be worth evaluating is Wickr. I haven&amp;#x27;t used it personally, but I&amp;#x27;ve seen it come up in these sorts of discussions.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pelasaco</author><text>I agree with you. However it won&amp;#x27;t solve the problem of privacy regarding Facebook. Other issue that I see here, people want an unified messenger, with a great user experience, 100% secure, open-source, multi-platform, free (as in beer) and no monetization included. I&amp;#x27;m sometimes shocked that here - hacker news - people underestimate the price of good software development, infrastructure and maintenance.</text></comment>