yeah I stopped trying to get normies on Simplex and just use it for sensitive convos
it isn't intuitive
but I don't get "it doesn't function"
i have my own relays
it literally functions on my own infrastructure 🤷
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Yeah it works pretty well
I launched SimpleX a few days ago and it was telling me that messages from person X were coming from person Y 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️. It did this for several messages. 🤮
It gave me some other serious bugs at the same time.
There are plenty of options that pass the functionality tests for basic electronic communication.
Prior to this experience, I've seen where it doesn't send a message, and doesn't inform the sender. Conversations with pieces missing, and no error anywhere, is a "show stopper" defect for any communication tool.
There is no reason to use a broken tool when working ones exist.
ive had lag and pieces of convos arrive out of order before
but they arrived.
i guess YMMV.
There are plenty of "It works fine for me folks", but I have encountered plenty of people that have had the same problems I have exxperienced, along with some that I haven't.
If it only works for some random people, then it doesn't work.
IRC doesn't have this problem. Neither does email, telnet, snail mail, telephone, nearly every instant messaging app, forums, BBS's, centralized messaging crap.
I guess you could say it competes well with fax machines and text messaging? Whoopty doo.
SimpleX works good but not for normies, it's still early, and needs to be flushed out more but I think it is improving more over time.
Signal is the best tool for normies until then.
Threema is a close second.