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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Both WhatsApp and Signal show the same amount of chats to me (9 for both). WhatsApp does show a small sliver of a tenth chat, but it's not really properly visible. There is a compact mode for the navigation bar in Signal, which helps a bit here.

From what I can see there's slightly more whitespace between chats, and Signal uses the full height for the chat (eg same size as the picture), whereas WhatsApp uses whitespace above and below, pushing the name and message preview together.

In chats the sizes seem about the same to me, but Signal colouring messages might make it appear a bit more bloated perhaps? Not sure.

[–] beSyl@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For me, I can see 7 chats on signal, 9 chats on WhatsApp. There are tons of wasted space on signal for me. It just looks bad to my eyes.