Anyone using Threema? The app costs 3 bucks but then is free and e2e-encrypted.
Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
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Re: Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
#52What's a good alternative to Signal on Android for casual messaging? I don't think Element is a good fit since it's not easy to ask a friend or family member to sign up for Element whereas it's simple to install Signal.
Casual Messaging? Family? Facebook Messenger, Hangouts, Google Chat, and above all SMS / iMessage. Whatsapp by all accounts is the most popular (as much as I personally detest it). I know I know, not HN-fare exactly, but they're easy, popular, and work. That's all that most of our's social network actually cares about. There's a lot of discussion in this thread about detailed encryption/security policy, but while I a…
> Facebook Messenger, Hangouts, Google Chat, and above all SMS / iMessage. Whatsapp by all accounts is the most popular (as much as I personally detest it).
Given you’re calling out WhatsApp specifically as a service you detest I’m going to assume you rank it last of all these options. Why is this? WhatsApp is E2EE, has a simple UI (at least IMO) and doesn’t store messages centrally. If I claimed to be a privacy nut I’d put WA above any of these.
Re: Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
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#54Anyone using Threema? The app costs 3 bucks but then is free and e2e-encrypted.
Yes and most people I know but that might be because I am in Switzerland.
Re: Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't had reliability problems, but I do find it annoying that if I don't update my app frequently enough, they just cut communications entirely. That is, I don't get notifications that I've received new messages anymore. I usually find out about this when someone emails me to say they've sent me a message on Signal, but I've not responded. Instead of silently failing, I wish they would pop up a notification that…
I can't imagine this is an intentional choice by Signal. Always assumed it had something to do with the OS silencing unused applications.
Yes, this was my impression too. When I turned that off, it started working ok. But this does not help on relatives phones, only on mine.
Re: Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Counterpoint - I'm completely happy with signal. The useability, contrary to some comments here, is wonderful. In particular I love the desktop app, it was easy to get family to use and does everything I need smoothly and with good privacy.
Sounds like you have a relatively new smartphone and never used Whatsapp.
WhatsApp has awful usability and no desktop version.
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#58It's really annoying that they didn't even acknowledge the problem officially. Till about 15 minutes ago, their status page said everything was fine. Their Twitter account still doesn't mention any technical problems. But the service has been having issues for at least 3 hours. [1] Most people I know that started using Signal a few months ago are now back to using Whatsapp. Privacy is a nice feature to advertise, but…
I pushed some people to change to Signal. We are all back now and I feel pretty dumb for having done that.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Counterpoint - I'm completely happy with signal. The useability, contrary to some comments here, is wonderful. In particular I love the desktop app, it was easy to get family to use and does everything I need smoothly and with good privacy.
Sounds like you have a relatively new smartphone and never used Whatsapp.
Not who you're replying to, but I have a low-end Xiaomi phone and was on WhatsApp since like 2011, and I still enjoy Signal and find it much cleaner.