This is not good. I've moved so many people over in the last week. For purposes of getting them invested, this is a truly inopportune moment for an extended outage.
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Signal is having technical difficulties
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Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#62At 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'm not getting a banner on iOS either, however when I try to send a message it fails with a red exclamation mark in a circle saying "Request failed: service unavailable (503)"
Edit: A few minutes after the message failed to send I got a yellow banner stating that the service was experience interruptions.
However the banner disappeared shortly afterward, so it would have been easy to miss.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#63The 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/
I thought signal was highly decentralized? What traffic does the server handle once two clients have "found" each other? Which I believe uses hashes of phone numbers.
You are incorrect. Signal is a centralized client-server model.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#64This is not good. I've moved so many people over in the last week. For purposes of getting them invested, this is a truly inopportune moment for an extended outage.
I haven't moved any friends in the last week, but I've gotten lots of notifications in Signal of many friends joining this week. Hopefully it just requires some simple modifications of some parts of their infra that they didn't realize were scaling bottlenecks.
Based on my friends, mostly foreigners and English-speaking locals here in Hong Kong, Signal has grown about 20% in the past week.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#65After getting burned by Keybase, I didn't even look at Signal. I am curious to see how Signal works in the long term without a revenue model. I paid for Matrix and got my team on it, working great. The nice thing about paying for something is you know what it costs.
Burned by Keybase how? It's still online and functional afaik. Do you mean the cryptocurrency shenanigans, the acquisition, ..?
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#66Nice workaround for Android users: tap and hold the send button to switch to SMS (insecure but still) https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Ca... You'll keep all your message history in Signal that way. Good to know when your contact don't have an Internet connection, too.
I wouldn't call that a nice workaround. Doesn't work for group messages or people that don't use signal for SMS.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#67Just a friendly reminder that Signal runs on donations and that if you can go and give them some money: https://signal.org/donate/
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#68Why not do a some kind of lazy P2P instead of proactive P2P? IIRC, Signal calls are P2P.
Wait, so I can geolocate someone and figure out their ISP by starting a Signal call? Great feature, I love it!
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#69Is it possible to switch to backup Signal server within app? i'm researching running my own in emergencies.
Signal is totally centralized. The server is (if I recall correctly) open source, but if you were to run your own server, all of your contacts would have to be using your server too in order to communicate with them. I assume that the hostname(s) of the central Signal servers are hardcoded in the app somewhere, since they're not meant to be replaced.