And no IPad version to

    • RmDebArc_5@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      8 months ago

      I don’t like WhatsApp, but some people simply refuse to use anything else (“better”) and the web clients can bridge the gap but it’s extremely annoying not being able to answer a call with a person you are texting

    • Jagermo@feddit.de
      0·
      8 months ago

      Element one via bridges and run WhatsApp on an old phone - that’s the most I will allow an app from meta in my enviroment

      • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
        1·
        8 months ago

        But please tell your contacts that you’re using bridges, if you haven’t already.

        You are effectively giving away encryption keys to a third party, since those messages need to be decrypted and re-encrypted mid-transit.
        Everyone who is part of the chats you use bridges with deserves to know about that fact, at least.

  • Mio@feddit.nu
    1·
    8 months ago

    Even if it exists, then it does not have to be good. Look at Microsoft Teams.

      • saze@feddit.uk
        2·
        8 months ago

        It has indeed improved a lot over the last 2 years or so and is now actually quite a mature product, as much as I hate to admit that about an MS product. My biggest gripes with it are its refusal to acknowledge you may be using multiple devices (to this day) and MS’s insistence that a person only do one thing at one time (can’t edit calendar items while checking a chat, for example). Their Linux app is a joke and I’m better off running it from Chrome. The phone app makes the WiFi interface crash constantly and I have to run it off 4G; it is the only app I have this issue with.

        Which brings me to another gripe. Teams documentation insists that screen sharing on Linux is not supported, and sure enough you cannot see the option for it while on a call with someone. However if you are in a meeting (with however many people), the option magically appears and works absolutely perfectly.

          • saze@feddit.uk
            1·
            7 months ago

            Apologies for the late reply, still getting a hang of this!

            By multiple devices issues I meant the following. Sometimes for example, I am on a Teams call on my phone but want to use my laptop to view screensharing stuff and join the call there too (without hanging up the phone). Teams will insist that my audio switch over to the laptop too and I have to manually disable the audio on the laptop and re-enable it on the phone. It shocks me that such a mature offering from a massive corporation still cannot figure out that I may want a screenshare/audio split onto two devices and ask me at least. Another smaller nag, if I want audio only on the phone, it will constantly bug me to tell me the incoming video is switched off. I kind of understand this however, I get that they want to let the average user know why there is no incoming video, but surely there ought to be a “leave me alone” setting for this.

      • mayonaise_met@feddit.nl
        1·
        8 months ago

        No separate tabs to do various things at once. You can pop out chats and calls, but that’s about it.

        It also struggles to connect with the right audio device everytime.

  • Magrath@lemmy.ca
    0·
    8 months ago

    Whatsapp has always been behind the curve. Took them way too long to allow gifs.

    • haruki@programming.dev
      02·
      8 months ago

      I actually prefer that—a simple messenger without gifs and stickers, just plain text.

      I’m not promoting WhatsApp in this case though. It’s one thing it’s done right, besides end-to-end encryption.