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If you could give 10 years of development time to up to 10 software projects, which would you choose? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You can choose up to 10 software projects.
Each project receives 10 years of development time as if all the programmers worked continuously for that duration, following their current working methods.
After choosing these 10 (or less) projects, everything else remains unchanged in the world, as if time has been frozen for 10 years.

Which projects do you choose?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think signal is really only missing usernames (which should come soon) as far as features are concerned. And sadly, I don't think it will change much. I think signals problem is not really feature wise but adoption wise.

Signal needs more marketing. It needs a bigger user base. And I honestly don't know how to change that. Maybe some really top notch marketing strategy, with beautiful diagrams and text of some made up scenarios explaining the perils of using Instagram and whatsapp..

[–] ripe_banana 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're right?

I also think they're on the right track (and a better track than apps like telegram - lots of negative social baggage). They really have gotten much farther than any other privacy focused apps.

I don't know, maybe I have a more optimistic view of the situation. It feel like they're knocking on the door of going fully mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Really? I feel like they have worsen their numbers after disabling sms support. I had a few people with whom I could chat on signal. They all moved away. I now have 0 ppl. I still have it installed but ya..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I moved away from signal and so did a number of people I knew. Because sms stopped working

[–] ripe_banana 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ya, looked into it and I'm wrong. I still think there is potential but...

Most popular messaging apps: signal doesn't show up in top 6 (caveat: Jan 2023 but I don't think trends changed drastically)
Signal download numbers: complete flatline with massive spike in Jan 2021

Telegram is way bigger than I thought. Its bigger than snapchat. 😯