They are not Telegram. They can't handle millions of users in a short period of time, although it's not on them, it's Telegram's magic.
I think it's less magic and more the lack of E2EE.
Signal is having technical difficulties
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Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aww beans. I looked at the IM observatory, and it seemed to check out fine...
Tried the server-to-server test?
Ahh cripes, I had port 5269 blocked. Whoop! Running the test now, thanks for the help!
Edit: Aaand I'm up! Got my first message. Thank you for your help, and for your work on Prosody!
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#23At 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").
You on android? No such banner on my ios client.
I see the banner in Android.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#24The 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/
Can you run a Prosody server on a rasPI?
Do you need a static IP? (Xfinity appears alergic to allowing static IPs any more, and I am too lazy to setup my own router after 26 years setting up other peoples net infra..)
Id love to chat with you...
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#25At 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.
There is a banner in the Android app, not on the desktop.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#26The 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/
Can you run a Prosody server on a rasPI? Do you need a static IP? (Xfinity appears alergic to allowing static IPs any more, and I am too lazy to setup my own router after 26 years setting up other peoples net infra..) Id love to chat with you...
I'm sure you can... but I think one of the big hiccups is that you need DNS to point to your server if you want it to be externally available.
I've used XMPP servers for intra-organization chatservers before though, and it worked great!
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#27They are not Telegram. They can't handle millions of users in a short period of time, although it's not on them, it's Telegram's magic.
Didn't Signal just have a couple hundred percent gain in users, on TOP of the hundred+ percent gain in users that Telegram had? Signal is on top of both of the primary app stores.
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#28FYI - check the JRE ep with Moxy Marlinspike:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ0NkT6gbP0
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2uVHiMqqJxy8iR2YB63aeP
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(Clearly downvoted by idiots who didnt even watch the short edit about signal...
HN has an arrogance problem... Moxy Marlinspike is the founder of signal - and he talks about why he did so...
Listen to him...)
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#29I'm working on another open source Messenger on Signal protocol. https://mixin.one/messenger
Re: Signal is having technical difficulties
#30Nice workaround for Android users: tap and hold the send button to switch to SMS (insecure but still) https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Ca... You'll keep all your message history in Signal that way. Good to know when your contact don't have an Internet connection, too.
I use the Signal app as my default for everything because of this feature (secure communication with Signal users and insecure SMS with non-Signal users)