Comment by isatty

While bashing on Telegram is basically HNs favorite past time, there aren't many other alternatives that work just as well in the area that I care the most about: being a great chat app. Telegram is fast, has native clients instead of a garbage web ui (or electron based app), has better stickers than the alternatives, is easy to write bots for and has a larger user base where I'm at than any of the alternatives other than WhatsApp.