Telegram on iOS crashes when browsing stickers or gifs longer than 30 second
If you open the sticker/gif panel when entering a message, flip, twist, rotate, no matter how, but view them, 15-20 seconds - the application crashes. Steps to reproduce Entering a message; Click on the…
Another example that brilliantly solved the problem of having multi device e2ee with e2ee backup before Meta is Element/Matrix https://element.io/features/end-to-end-encryption
Telegram pioneered privacy and security in 2013 and is currently one of the last messaging services not to offer e2ee (except in 1:1 chats only available on mobile).
Now Telegram is left at the tail end along with QQ, Skype and WeChat not even having e2e encryption as well as no protection against quantum computers.
At the moment, Telegram remains among the few services that do not have e2e encryption except for the special case of secret chats.
In light of what recently happened to its CEO, Pavel Durov, that it would not be possible if the service used e2e encryption everywhere, what is stopping Telegram from upgrading its MTProto protocol in order to support such encryption everywhere and become a truly privacy and free speech oriented service?
Obviously it would be much better if a standard protocol such as MLS was used.
Hopefully in the future, Telegram will decide to support MLS protocol as well.