Finally decided to dump Hangouts for Telegram. I like most of it. There are a few annoyances. Some which developers have no plans to work on. I do not like the emoji. I do not like the sound alerts on the desktop app. I do not like that mentions do not necessarily alert the user if the conversation is active. There are some other few things that are annoying. But there are a lot of things that Telegram gets right. It is available on all platforms. It's fast. It's smooth. It does not consume much RAM on the desktop. It just works great. File sharing is brilliant. Google Talk good. Stickers... Love them.
April 03 2017