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Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by dep_b »

graeme wrote: post #12
tomp wrote: post #4

At least they tell you about it - there's a banner on the top of the app. Last time WhatsApp was having issues, it didn't give any indication - messages just weren't being delivered (but as a user, there's no way to distinguish between "no messages" and "messages not being delivered").

You on android? No such banner on my ios client.

I did see it on iOS

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by circularfoyers »

graeme wrote: post #12
tomp wrote: post #4

At least they tell you about it - there's a banner on the top of the app. Last time WhatsApp was having issues, it didn't give any indication - messages just weren't being delivered (but as a user, there's no way to distinguish between "no messages" and "messages not being delivered").

You on android? No such banner on my ios client.

Not sure if it's only showing on Android but I had to attempt to send a message first before it showed.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by hawkice »

_mitch wrote: post #23
graeme wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You on android? No such banner on my ios client.

I see the banner in Android.

fwiw I do not see the banner on android. That being said, things break. Breaking in a way you can notice it's broken is good, but pobody's nerfect.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by [deleted] »

entropea wrote: post #27
mahdyarhp wrote: post #14

They are not Telegram. They can't handle millions of users in a short period of time, although it's not on them, it's Telegram's magic.

Didn't Signal just have a couple hundred percent gain in users, on TOP of the hundred+ percent gain in users that Telegram had? Signal is on top of both of the primary app stores.

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Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by Daniel_sk »

vecio wrote: post #25
LordAtlas wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see a banner on the top of my app. I only found out when the desktop client kept timing out with 502 errors and after asking on Twitter, found other people were having issues too. It's there on https://status.signal.org/ though.

There is a banner in the Android app, not on the desktop.

The desktop app shows a yellow "DISCONNECTED - Check your network connection" warning. They probably should work on better error/status reporting in next version.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

#39

Post by upofadown »

samstave wrote: post #24
bjt2n3904 wrote: post #2

The centralized-infrastructure-Tower-of-Babel is about to collapse. As much as I love Signal, we've got to move to things that are decentralized. I setup a prosody[1] server a while back, but have nobody to talk with. If anyone wants to try their system out, I'm bjt@2n3904.net on XMPP. 1 - https://prosody.im/

Can you run a Prosody server on a rasPI? Do you need a static IP? (Xfinity appears alergic to allowing static IPs any more, and I am too lazy to setup my own router after 26 years setting up other peoples net infra..) Id love to chat with you...

>Can you run a Prosody server on a rasPI?

Sure.

>Do you need a static IP?

Well you need a domain name to identify your server. It's the same thing as with email. So however you can do that...

It might be less work to just use a preexisting public server:

* https://list.jabber.at/

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