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I wouldn't invest time in Wire.
I got my entire family to use it seven or eight years ago. Since then, Wire has continually made changes that have only made the system worse for free users. I assume they're doing it to push people to the paid subscriptions, but it could also simply be developer incompetence. Either way, there isn't a good alternative for a non-techie group of people, amd switching costs are high, so we're stuck on it as it slowly degrades.
Notifications have become consistently more flakey over time, and none of our Android users can "Share" media with the app anymore (it doesn't show up as an option). Wire used to have an animated GIF lookup option built-in - sort of like fancy emojis - which disappeared earlier this year. Group video calls were disabled for the free tier last year. It's a slow enshitification, and I'd recommend not investing time onboarding a bunch of people.
Any alternatives?
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