Please guys, Use AlternativeChatAppNoneofThePeopleIKnowAreOn.
The real problem with all of these oh-so-secure-much-better-alternative-chat-apps is that nobody uses them. What's a communication network when there are no communicators? Just a network.
Unless X or Y gets better traction than WhatsApp, you will just be "that guy" who refuses to use WhatsApp and is instead on some novelty app nobody else uses. Though tinfoil insults are passé, they will bring them back just for you.
1. Because you need to have a session open at every time
2. Because OTR appends the key for the next message on every single message, so if A is sending several messages after each other while B is offline all of them will be encrypted with the same key.
TextSecure fixed both of these issues but is otherwise based on OTR. You should really look into it.
The real problem with all of these oh-so-secure-much-better-alternative-chat-apps is that nobody uses them. What's a communication network when there are no communicators? Just a network.
Unless X or Y gets better traction than WhatsApp, you will just be "that guy" who refuses to use WhatsApp and is instead on some novelty app nobody else uses. Though tinfoil insults are passé, they will bring them back just for you.