Signal is having technical difficulties
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Signal is having technical difficulties
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Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#2The centralized-infrastructure-Tower-of-Babel is about to collapse.
As much as I love Signal, we've got to move to things that are decentralized. I setup a prosody[1] server a while back, but have nobody to talk with. If anyone wants to try their system out, I'm bjt@2n3904.net on XMPP.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#3This is the first big outage I've felt affects me personally in any meaningful way as someone who has tried to stay away from overly depending on cloud services and SaaS like Gmail or slack. I first noticed that a couple of hours ago my messages seemed to be hanging and going through without the typical confirmation. The status page has no more information than the title at this point.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#4At least they tell you about it - there's a banner on the top of the app. Last time WhatsApp was having issues, it didn't give any indication - messages just weren't being delivered (but as a user, there's no way to distinguish between "no messages" and "messages not being delivered").
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#5The centralized-infrastructure-Tower-of-Babel is about to collapse. As much as I love Signal, we've got to move to things that are decentralized. I setup a prosody[1] server a while back, but have nobody to talk with. If anyone wants to try their system out, I'm bjt@2n3904.net on XMPP. 1 - https://prosody.im/
I can't figure out how to use it. xD
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#6I noticed this in messages taking about 30s to confirm sending. But the service has been reliable and clear feedback when messages are failing
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#7The centralized-infrastructure-Tower-of-Babel is about to collapse. As much as I love Signal, we've got to move to things that are decentralized. I setup a prosody[1] server a while back, but have nobody to talk with. If anyone wants to try their system out, I'm bjt@2n3904.net on XMPP. 1 - https://prosody.im/
Hi, Prosody dev here. It looks like your server isn't reachable.
If you'd like help with that you can join the community support channel: https://prosody.im/discuss/
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#8The centralized-infrastructure-Tower-of-Babel is about to collapse. As much as I love Signal, we've got to move to things that are decentralized. I setup a prosody[1] server a while back, but have nobody to talk with. If anyone wants to try their system out, I'm bjt@2n3904.net on XMPP. 1 - https://prosody.im/
I thought signal was highly decentralized? What traffic does the server handle once two clients have "found" each other? Which I believe uses hashes of phone numbers.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#9I still get notifications about incoming messages, just can't read them because the app rejects my passphrase. This has been going on for more than an hour now. If they aim at picking up whatsapp refugees, this is pretty bad.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#10At least they tell you about it - there's a banner on the top of the app. Last time WhatsApp was having issues, it didn't give any indication - messages just weren't being delivered (but as a user, there's no way to distinguish between "no messages" and "messages not being delivered").
I don't see a banner on the top of my app. I only found out when the desktop client kept timing out with 502 errors and after asking on Twitter, found other people were having issues too.
It's there on https://status.signal.org/ though.