If you are into crypto space Telegram is taking over almost all other community communications when it comes to Group chatting.
Year ago, slack was major player, it still is somewhat active and used widely for administrative group chats but recent months I noticed almost every new project uses Telegram as a medium of communication. And it is growing quite rapidly as far as I can see...
Look into any ICO projects, they all have Telegram group chat. And seeing massive growth from crypto space, telegram even planning to do an ICO, TON.
What it tells us is that, easy on-boarding and having desktop and mobile application in sync so users don't have to stuck with only one device is the key to success!
For that reasons, eSteem is also exploring private messaging and group chatting with multiple use cases and many more use cases that are mobile as well as improve utility... With upcoming Communities feature this can be organized into something huge...
How do you see Telegram alternative working on top of Steem?
Do you think it is viable or you think those telegram groups are only used temporarily and doesn't bring much of value in long term?!
What use cases do you see, can it leverage Steem's reward system?