> (And can we just add a link to the third party sticker website? People seem to care about that and sticker discovery is needlessly difficult. I get asked this frequently and am constantly sending the sticker link. I'm sorry, but the default ones suck and I cannot understand any good reason it works this way)
Presumably the reason is that your own sticker sets should be private by default, which makes it more work to allow optional public sharing of them (which supposedly was not worth delaying the feature for). For example, I have a sticker set of weird pictures of a friend of mine that I like to use, but only with mutual acquaintances.
Btw, I would argue that stickers are the prime example of Signal trying to become feature rich. But of course, there's only so much you can do at the same time. (Though new features appeared to be released more often recently, presumably as a result of their funding infusion a while back.)
> I would argue that stickers are the prime example of Signal trying to become feature rich.
I agree with that and think it is a good example. I know they got a lot of flack for it, even seeing Rachel get downvoted quite a bit for saying this is what Signal needs.
As to the sticker discovery, I am more referring to a link in app that leads you somewhere like here[0]. It is nice that if a friend sends a sticker to you that you can download the entire set. It is nice that you can make your own (which is presumably what you are referring to). But if we can download these stickers without some warning (presumably no danger) then this would fix the endless comments I hear of "Signal doesn't have good stickers like Facebook does." Just seems like extremely low hanging fruit to me.
Presumably the reason is that your own sticker sets should be private by default, which makes it more work to allow optional public sharing of them (which supposedly was not worth delaying the feature for). For example, I have a sticker set of weird pictures of a friend of mine that I like to use, but only with mutual acquaintances.
Btw, I would argue that stickers are the prime example of Signal trying to become feature rich. But of course, there's only so much you can do at the same time. (Though new features appeared to be released more often recently, presumably as a result of their funding infusion a while back.)