Rather they didn't bother with this, but very pleased I can turn the entire feature off in settings.
Signal Introduces Stories
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#252I'm glad to see the app is actively being worked on, even if the changes aren't ones I care about personally. Here's my wishlist for Signal: - Edit previously sent messages like Telegram, Discord and Slack lets you do. I'm so damn tired of a big ugly "This message was deleted" if I try to fix a typo/DYAC - A better way to sync up clients, so when I log in on a computer and verify with my phone, it lets me sync over s…
Curious about the session expiry. I can't remember the last time I had to re-login. Do you only use the Desktop client occasionally?
Re: Signal Introduces Stories
#253I'm glad to see the app is actively being worked on, even if the changes aren't ones I care about personally. Here's my wishlist for Signal: - Edit previously sent messages like Telegram, Discord and Slack lets you do. I'm so damn tired of a big ugly "This message was deleted" if I try to fix a typo/DYAC - A better way to sync up clients, so when I log in on a computer and verify with my phone, it lets me sync over s…
Curious about the session expiry. I can't remember the last time I had to re-login. Do you only use the Desktop client occasionally?
Ditto, on at least month three to six of the same login here
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am using an absolutely ancient phone (2016 iphone SE) that's perpetually in low power mode, so it's possible that this isn't a big problem for other iOS users. It's also rather slow on my mac, but I have noticed that my partner's 4a runs it smoothly.
I love HN threads where the complainer is knowingly using an old device on power mode, while complaining about performance… all while the responder is using a custom de-googled niche ROM and claiming somehow it works flawlessly. I always wonder how non-HNers use such software, if even the dedicated people are struggling.
I am using stock ROM for my S21 and it also work flawlessly. Not sure whether the ROM has anything to do with it.
Re: Signal Introduces Stories
#255I'm glad to see the app is actively being worked on, even if the changes aren't ones I care about personally. Here's my wishlist for Signal: - Edit previously sent messages like Telegram, Discord and Slack lets you do. I'm so damn tired of a big ugly "This message was deleted" if I try to fix a typo/DYAC - A better way to sync up clients, so when I log in on a computer and verify with my phone, it lets me sync over s…
I agree with everything you've said. I'd add that I'd like to be able to sync more than 5 devices, too.
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#256Neat! Always good to see apps expanding in their feature-set. Modernizing Signal is the way to go!
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#257Removed 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.
In case you haven't seen the technical motivation for removing SMS yet, see https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms... It doesn't look like it has anything to do with Signal's direction in particular, but rather the changing environment they're in. (Specifically Android/Google making things harder.)
"SMS is on the way out". I'll believe it when I see it. Apple isn't going to adopt it because they have no incentive to do so and apple has huge market share. Android hasn't even implemented it yet! We're killing super useful features because 50% (or whatever android market share is) of mobile phones might have something better next year???
Having SMS support as a workaround was huge for signal usability for me. Taking it away burns so much good will.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 on the update harassment. Are these critical security bugs or random updates!? You never know.
Exactly. I'm glad they update the app regularly, but the giant popup banner is an aggressive way of advertising that.
What platform? I don't get this on Android or Linux Desktop (via Flatpak). Perhaps I am just good at keeping apps on both platforms up to date?
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#259Removed 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.
This removed-sms-without-reason is going to be a myth that persists for a while > RCS is coming, and it doesn’t play well with Signal.... and Signal can’t add RCS support because there’s no RCS API on Android. Honestly, the days of any third-party SMS app are numbered. https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...
RCS is not here for Android and will likely never arrive for IOS...
Even if Android saw 100% adoption for RCS I'd still want to message my apple people via sms.
Re: Signal Introduces Stories
#260I'm glad to see the app is actively being worked on, even if the changes aren't ones I care about personally. Here's my wishlist for Signal: - Edit previously sent messages like Telegram, Discord and Slack lets you do. I'm so damn tired of a big ugly "This message was deleted" if I try to fix a typo/DYAC - A better way to sync up clients, so when I log in on a computer and verify with my phone, it lets me sync over s…
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