I’m really happy that this is not relevant to me.

… because I don’t use Windows. I wish it was also because I managed to get rid of WhatsApp from my life.

Does this mean they’ll finally be adding calls to the web version?

It amazes me people use this crap. I guess people just don’t give a fuck about their life.

Yes I know it is extraordinarily popular in many places of the world. Mine included. The hardest part isnt friends, it is businesses.

Friends/family have been easy enough: we are going to use signal for example. They go ok, whatever. But business got complacent. We always work it out in the end anyways. Or I wont give them my business.

The less Meta owned software installed, the better.

Good thing I don’t use it

Why would anyone care about it being uglier?

It’s WhatsApp. Ugly is their visual identity.

If they changed their app to resemble a neon citylight barely anyone would even notice, let alone complain.

I’m just thinking now that the Mac is next.

I thought that as much as these companies preach about LLMs doing their coding, the cost of development would go down, no? So why does it need to reduce everything to a single code base to make it easier for developers?

The whole point of webapps was not to have os specific ones. somehow smartphones caused everything to move backwards.

Waiter! waiter! more webslop please!

Does anyone have any idea why, I thought it was also quite liked by the community, no need to open up the extreamly slow web browser just to post one image or pdf

I’ve literally only ever used the web version on windows. It works fine, so what’s the problem? what functionality is being lost?

More ram usage? oh no! I couldn’t possibly have free Ram left!

What’s so funny is that they were going to allow encrypted (they say) calls on the web app but then suddenly released a native windows client and told everyone if you wanted calls you need to use it, then removed all buttons for calls or video calls.

I guess they’re coming back on that.

I never installed their app on Windows. I figured it could just randomly watch what I was doing, log keystrokes, view websites and history etc. I don’t know if I’m misunderstanding how much Windows apps can spy on each other - they don’t seem to ask for permissions etc.

It’s a shame. The app worked well, and it was nice to have a native look rather than a generic web one.

I dont mind the web app as i dont have to install anything and i can sandbox it to my browser.

Edit: using ublock in whatsapp ;)