On: Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities

[DCKing]

Ugh, this keeps on coming up.

Wire [1] already has both end-to-end encryption and cross device sync. It's not the only one to do that either.

It's not a tradeoff.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_(software)

[trisimix → DCKing]

It also has a better user experience. And encryption enabled by default.

[melkhior → trisimix]

+1 for Wire from me, have been using it for about a year and a half now.

I only wish it had a better desktop client, the current one is a little laggy especially when scrolling up chat history.

[petre → melkhior]

I use the web client and it works fibe. I suspect the desktop clients are Electron based.

[krageon → DCKing]

Wire drains the battery of your phone so hard it's unusable in practice. There has been a bug report about this open since May 2017, with a note that "we're working on it". It hasn't been solved so far.

[Mithaldu → DCKing]

The last time i tried Wire its UX was about as stable as what a 12 year old would cobble together with old ducktape and string. Constantly exhibiting glitches and bugs and lacking even the most basic UI amenities as well as being a heavyweight browser app.

Does Wire have a light-weight and solid desktop client yet?