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Re: You can change your number

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Post by nsajko »

SecurityLagoon wrote: post #6

Can people please choose an appropriate title when posting. "You can change your number" makes sense in the context of signal.org but makes little sense on the front page of HN. The RSS feed doesn't even include the domain for context.

HN guidelines forbid changing the title. I proposed changing this once, but the post didn't get traction. There was more traction for that years ago though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300126

Re: You can change your number

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Post by saurik »

SecurityLagoon wrote: post #6

Can people please choose an appropriate title when posting. "You can change your number" makes sense in the context of signal.org but makes little sense on the front page of HN. The RSS feed doesn't even include the domain for context.

This website has an extremely awkward policy about titles that makes it so if you don't use the original title people get angry. The policy though just doesn't make sense, sadly, as the concept of titles is audience-specific (and even movies or books, which might feel more organized, sometimes have different audiences in different markets). FWIW, I did connect it together as I saw "(signal.org)" and that was sufficient for me in this specific case.

Re: You can change your number

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Post by killingtime74 »

viccuad wrote: post #9
Vinnl wrote: post #2

> We built Change Number using the foundation of more exciting features to come. Surely this is referring to the ability to use a non-phone number ID, which they've hinted at before [1]. Looking forward to that, only because I know many others are! [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/comment/...

Oh, I'm surprised, after a decade stating that phone numbers were great for ID.

It shows they have an open mind I guess

Re: You can change your number

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Post by stavros »

This is a great feature, well done for adding it! However, I'm a bit puzzled as to why seemingly easy bug fixes aren't addressed. There's a longstanding issue with Signal not recognizing that the phone is in a landscape orientation when taking photos, so they're rotated by 90 degrees. I opened an issue[1] and it got closed with a related-but-not-exact workaround.

This impacts everyone who takes photos on Android with Signal, it's not a niche problem. It seems like an easy fix, and I'm perplexed that it doesn't get prioritized. Ah well, can't complain too much about a free product.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9641

Re: You can change your number

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Post by stavros »

mlissner wrote: post #15

This is fine, but signal still doesn't tell you when the person you're sending to has uninstalled signal. Instead, your messages go into ether and you think the person is ignoring you. It blows my mind they haven't prioritized this. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11164

This shows a single check mark, no? Ie it tells you that the user hasn't received the message.

Re: You can change your number

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Post by [deleted] »

nsajko wrote: post #11
SecurityLagoon wrote: post #6

Can people please choose an appropriate title when posting. "You can change your number" makes sense in the context of signal.org but makes little sense on the front page of HN. The RSS feed doesn't even include the domain for context.

HN guidelines forbid changing the title. I proposed changing this once, but the post didn't get traction. There was more traction for that years ago though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300126

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Re: You can change your number

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Post by Waterluvian »

stavros wrote: post #16

This is a great feature, well done for adding it! However, I'm a bit puzzled as to why seemingly easy bug fixes aren't addressed. There's a longstanding issue with Signal not recognizing that the phone is in a landscape orientation when taking photos, so they're rotated by 90 degrees. I opened an issue[1] and it got closed with a related-but-not-exact workaround. This impacts everyone who takes photos on Android with…

Signal is eating up 11GB of my iOS space. There is no way to clear it without completely uninstalling and reinstalling. And then the problem just resets and grows again.

It’s a ridiculously consequential bug and they don’t seem motivated to even comment.

Pretty sad.

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