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Well, I suppose the ecosystem is moving [1], and now the ecosystem has moved to stories. If you had asked your friends to get a Matrix client instead (eg. Element), at least you'd be able to move to a new client [2] if you didn't like the direction it moved in - and you'd still have your group chats and keep your contacts because it's federated. Unfortunately you're now stuck with stories (or maybe crypto payments on…
I'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…
Personally, I would like a long press / long click option to switch to "send and enable disappearing messages." It's a small thing, but it would make it easier to move back and forth between archived and unarchived conversations.
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Everything about Signal will make more sense if you forget every opinion you've had or read on a message board, and accept that the project's mission is simply to transition as many people off insecure systems as they can. For example: message board nerds are apoplectic about Signal's phone number requirement, but the systems ordinary people were already overwhelmingly used phone numbers already. As communications tr…
If that's true, why do they refuse to implement backups so normal people don't lose data when their phone breaks or the app bugs out?
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Making people juggle a different app for SMS is the opposite of being mainstream friendly.
They didn't have much choice, unfortunately: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...
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I was still using Signal for SMS, and they announced they'd be removing that. So it's gone from my phone. Everybody wants to be Telegram it seems.
I don't understand what Signal had to do SMS. its mainly a Secure messaging app not an SMS client And Telegram is the worst in terms of security and privacy.
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The reason it's not the "best Signal" is that WhatsApp doesn't have reproducible builds or any guarantees that e2e isn't subverted on the client side or removed entirely. And it's run by a company with incentives that are misaligned to e2e encryption and a history of product updates that don't respect the privacy or preferences of the end user.
Otoh, maybe a small company like signal is easier to completely subvert by Cia, nsa, Mossad than meta is?
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They didn't have much choice, unfortunately: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...
How can there be no RCS API? Eww.
Actually, there is an RCS API.
However, Google restricts its use to themselves and specific OEMS only. IIUC, that's currently only Samsung[0].
[0] https://www.xda-developers.com/google-messages-rcs-api-third...
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Why use multiple apps to text people? I don't us FB messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, or any of that. I use Signal. Signal lets me send a message to ANYONE else with a phone number protocol agnostic. That's very useful, especially when I'm talking to committed iMessage users.
I get you but it feels like a weird hill to die on. Questionable why SMS support was added to Signal in the first place but removing it makes sense in the context of where they want to take Signal (e.g. usernames).
And then once those people drop it, you have to do so as well if you want to keep talking to them.
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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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I use signal for SMS. Is this an iOS thing? If so presumably it's an Apple restriction? edit: ah, they announced recently that they are removing SMS support in Android. The reasoning is solid IMO, I've accidentally sent insecure messages before.
how do you use it for sms on ios? their website says they don't support it. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Ca...