Is everything just merging into the same BorgBlopApp?
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Signal Introduces Stories
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#82"Give the people what they want" At least they realize we want a way to avoid stories.
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#83It’s so frustrating to see every single app out there shamelessly copying this feature from Snapchat.
Why would they have any shame? Snapchat is a horrible app that is only intuitive if you're 13 years old.
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#84Anyone know of a fork of signal that disables this keeps the SMS feature?
Nobody is using SMS outside the US.
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#85Am I in a bubble and these features are, in fact, widely used on WhatsApp? I'm in groups with a whole lot of other people including a few who keep up with modern social media stuff, use TikTok, use Instagram, et c., and zero of them use the Status feature or Stories or anything but messaging. For us it's just ICQ/text with better media embedding (but still really bad, somehow). Some of us regularly use similar featur…
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#86When I first opened the app and saw a "Stories" tab, I thought "oh no... not here too, ffs...". Then I immediately went to the settings and was mildly relieved (but perhaps I'm naive) to see that I could opt-out. Now I dread the day when they might decide to make it so that you won't be able to opt-out. Why can't we have nice things?
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#87Signal has demonstrated product-death (loss of cohesive product vision), what do we use next?
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#88What the fuck happened with Signal? Why did we remove SMS (step 1 into "only criminals use this app") and then start adding stuff that has absolutely nothing at all to do with messaging? Did a federal agent start running the show with the sole mission of destroying the entire app?
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#89Removed SMS support and then added stories. Worried about signal's recent direction. Being able to interact with my remaining non-signal contacts was huge. Really going to miss it. In contrast they are now adding a feature I do not care about at all.
You can still communicate with your SMS-using friends via the normal means… IMO mixing totally secure and totally insecure communications in the same app (the same list view even!) was always a poor idea.
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#90That's cool but everyone in my family that I convinced to use Signal just stopped using it because it was their default SMS app. Now it's not.
Who uses SMS? I am always surprised when this feature is being mentioned.
People with an Android phone that talk to people with iPhones where one of those parties doesn't use Signal. That's who.