Telegram chat program - and so much more
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@Dashrender said:
OK one kinda draw back... looks like you can only add contacts based on phone numbers..
so is this just a ponzi scheme to get phone numbers?The Japanese messaging app Line required a phone number to setup similar to Telegram. But that system did create a unique "Line ID" that you could then use to add friends and such. Line has since expanded to allow accounts to be create with a FB authenticated login. I found that useful when I wanted to create Line accounts for my daughters to chat with their friends in Japan that had Line. Because my daughters did not have phone numbers yet.
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I'm going to try to move my family over to this. I'm tired of our Hangouts/Facebook Messenger mess
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It really isn't that bad. I think I like it better than Hangouts in some respects.
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Tinkered with Telegram today. It is a pretty nice app.
The security features are quite nice and the Secret Chat feature is very interesting.
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Found some of you
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I think it will be awesome for group chats. I have a group for both of our families and I'm trying to get everyone on it. That way planning is easier, and I hate group sms/mms stuff.
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@johnhooks said:
I think it will be awesome for group chats. I have a group for both of our families and I'm trying to get everyone on it. That way planning is easier, and I hate group sms/mms stuff.
Me too, but I can't imagine talking the family into using anything different.
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Okay, I'm on it. Works great on the Linux Mint desktop.
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They have a Chrome app also. I installed it in Linux on my chromebook, and then my wife pointed out she just installed the chrome app.
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@johnhooks said:
They have a Chrome app also. I installed it in Linux on my chromebook, and then my wife pointed out she just installed the chrome app.
Yeah, that's important. Without a ChromeApp, it would be pretty weak.
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The problem is, the people I want to talk to are either on skype or hangouts or facebook messenger.
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Maybe I'll have to convert people to the light side. It looks really good.
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@Breffni-Potter said:
The problem is, the people I want to talk to are either on skype or hangouts or facebook messenger.
And some do not have phone numbers, making this difficult. This doesn't allow for anonymous accounts, which a lot of people use.
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The one thing I do not like is that it is very disorganized. For a company to use it, it would be cumbersome. There isn't any central user management. I don't like things tied to phone numbers. Device-centricity is very 1980s. It's going after WhatsApp and SMS replacement, which is good, but those things are inherently bad. So it's filling a niche that I don't feel needs filled.
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If it could be used with email addresses, that would work nicely.
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@Breffni-Potter said:
If it could be used with email addresses, that would work nicely.
Could be. That would be nice.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Breffni-Potter said:
The problem is, the people I want to talk to are either on skype or hangouts or facebook messenger.
And some do not have phone numbers, making this difficult. This doesn't allow for anonymous accounts, which a lot of people use.
yeah this is a major draw back at the moment.
Though the phone devices (at least the mobile apps) are the only ones where you can have secure chats. -
it's not actually tied to a device - you just have to use a phone number to get thing started.
If you don't have a SMS enabled phone number, it will call you with the access code so you can register.
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@Dashrender said:
it's not actually tied to a device - you just have to use a phone number to get thing started.
That's tied to a device. If I have no phone, let me know how I get started. If you don't have a means of doing it without a phone number, it's 100% tied to a device. And does someone who gets my phone number down the road get access to my identity?
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Phone numbers are not security. Phone numbers as identity is like social security numbers for identity. They weren't built to be ID fields and using something that doesn't ID someone to ID them is... reckless.
