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Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by bilal4hmed »

heisenbergs wrote: post #149
bilal4hmed wrote: post #108

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Saw this on reddit, so copying here Donate to them so they can buy more servers https://signal.org/donate/ * If you work in the US, many corporations will match your donation. Easy double of your donation * Set https://smile.amazon.com to Signal, so your purchases on Amazon go to Signal * Use services like Paypal to donate, that sends 100% of the money to the foundation

for changing amazon smile: is it "Signal Technology Foundation - Location: Mountain View, CA"? no description available unfortunately. seem to be a bunch with the name signal and that was the closest in name to what seems to be the signal foundation

Signal Technology Foundation is the right one

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by macintux »

KMag wrote: post #111
hnrodey wrote: post #77

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I'm a new Signal user myself (maybe six weeks or so). In the past week there's been a huge influx of my contacts joining Signal. I will continue to use iMessages for my iOS contacts. For SMS people I will gently nudge (hey, have you tried Signal? and then let the convo go where it does) and then use Signal as the primary for those people.

Is SMS still popular in your part of the world? I literally haven't gotten an SMS from a human in the past 9 years. Here in Hong Kong, SMS is how your bank sends notifications, and for spam. The chat space is vastly dominated by Weixin/WeChat and WhatsApp.

In the U.S. I’ve never had anyone suggest messaging other than SMS, FB, or (long ago) Twitter.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by bilal4hmed »

olah_1 wrote: post #146
too_pricey wrote: post #137

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They're a non-profit, so their financials are publicly disclosed. ProPublica only has it as recently as 2018, but here was the financials then: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/82450...

That’s helpful, thanks. So they’re 4mil in the hole? How is it possible that they’re still running?

They have $100 mn in donation from Acton

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by lucb1e »

faitswulff wrote: post #91
earth2mars wrote: post #81

I am very interested in hearing the postmortem of this extended outage technology/architecture stand point. Not to be cynical, but I wonder if this is caused by an attack by the company who is losing users!

I doubt we’ll get much info about it out of Signal / OWS. I’ve asked about their tech stack and ability to scale in AMAs before and got fairly vague responses.

The server code was published. Even if we don't know what services they use, you should be able to find quite easily what language the stuff is written in.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by roughly »

olah_1 wrote: post #89
alan5 wrote: post #71

I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :) Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/

We have no info as to how much money they need or how much they currently have. For all we know, this was just an area of oversight and not related to funding at all. I’d prefer to pay yearly than to feel the spectre of guilt for using a “free” app.

Good news, then! They have a monthly recurring donation option.
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