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[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

I’d argue Facebook messenger is the IE of messaging apps. It’s worse than WhatsApp in possibly every way, and it’s the main form of communication in my country.

[-] malamignasanmig@group.lt 7 points 1 year ago

in my country too. and whats irritating is that most businesses and government services use it too . instead of, you know, improving their websites?

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

pulls the mask off both apps

Facebook again!

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Really?

That sucks for sure, gladly everyone here doesn't use it at all, I think I have only talked through there to business supports and stuff like that.

[-] starman@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago
[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From top of my head:

  • It’s bad at link previews. For example, if someone sends a YouTube link you won’t get a preview thumbnail of the YouTube video. This is weird, because I’m sure this worked before (although not every time). I think this should be basic functionality in modern messaging apps.
  • Terrible photo quality, especially from Android devices. I noted that the image quality of photos from Android users were significantly worse. Like, you can visibly see all the terrible jpeg artifacts. Haven’t seen this to the same extent on other messaging apps.
[-] jagoan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The link preview thing whatsapp use this weird way of handling it. The preview has to be loaded on the sender end first, then the receiver will get it. If the link was sent before preview was loaded, then the receiver just getting plain ol blue text.

On any other messenger, imessage, discord, etc. the clients try to load the preview on the receiver end. Simpler and work so much better.

[-] starman@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for response

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