The feature that I missed the most after switching to signal was Live location sharing. It is just so convenient to find your friends while going out or going to the street exactly at the time someone is there to pick you up.
Stories Are Coming to Signal
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#12They're taking a play out of Facebook's strategy book: copy every feature of your competitor as quickly as possible. In this case, it seems they're going after WhatsApp and they're copying WhatsApp's status feature.
This seems like a smart move for them because they can run for parity with WhatsApp and they'd still have one major benefit Facebook has been in a very tight spot to match: privacy.
Most people don't seem to care about privacy, but if they start losing their (privacy aware) friends and family to Signal, they too will consider installing it as well.
If they acquire enough network effects, they could hollow out a large chunk of WhatsApp, unless WhatsApp starts offering features Signal can't offer (e.g. better integrations into Facebook's other properties).
It'll be interesting to watch how this plays out.
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#14First they destroyed WhatsApp, now Signal is next. Stop developing features. Fire all PMs.
If reliability and other features don't suffer, why do you care? Just don't use it.
Though I do wish they'd prioritize editable messages and formatting before stories...
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#16This seems like such a strange addition. My use of signal is primarily group chat or as an SMS replacement. It is hard for me to see the benefit of adding stories like this to what to me is a tool for directly messaging specific individuals. I would be interested in hearing from people who think this is a good change.
I can discreetly share text, images or videos with a subset of my contacts all at once without bothering them in a private conversation. They all appear in order and in full without some algorithmic trickery, they get flushed after a day or so and my friends can decide if they want to give them a look or not.
It's a very nice feature especially for the kind of general stuff that I wouldn't want to personally send to people and clog our conversations.
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#17God fucking dammit. I literally just put my reputation on the line with family last week that we should all switch to Signal. All I want is a decent E2EE messaging app.
Between this and their upcoming crypto payment system, I’m thinking I made a huge mistake switching from Telegram.
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#18First they destroyed WhatsApp, now Signal is next. Stop developing features. Fire all PMs.
Apparently they have too much money? I thought I donated to help them be a strong encrypted messaging app and survive for the long term. Not to tack on a bunch of social media features.
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#19God fucking dammit. I literally just put my reputation on the line with family last week that we should all switch to Signal. All I want is a decent E2EE messaging app. Between this and their upcoming crypto payment system, I’m thinking I made a huge mistake switching from Telegram.
What speaks against riot+matrix?
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#20happy they're adding this. one more important feature to replace whatsapp and instagram for normal people.
stories is a great feature by letting you post however much you want and letting the viewer choose to view/skip/ignore the content easily. plus its ephemeral by default which is another good feature imo.
everything should be e2ee. anything which helps convince your mom/sister/dad/friends to use signal is a good thing.