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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

UX is very difficult, unfortunately, especially for open-source projects where the contributors are usually programmers and not so much UX/product managers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look at the telegram client, which is open source and has the best UX for a messenger I know

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't telegram a for-profit company?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The telegram apps are open source

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but repeated "This message cannot be decrypted" breaks its primary function as a chat app.

It's getting harder and harder to disable their broken end to end encryption by default too.