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Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by luxuryballs »

dmcbrayer wrote: post #59
luxuryballs wrote: post #13

good for them to be open about it because it’s easy for internet weirdness to be suspicious these days, my buddy just about shat a brick when a message with the newly leaked video from Fulton GA suddenly vanished: https://www.bitchute.com/video/lep8A5YTQ0P3/

I'm curious how a link to a Fulton County board of elections surveillance video has anything to do with Signal's availability issues.

Did you read the rest of the comment? Without the link for context and given recent censorship of this kind of stuff I figured it might have seemed a little bit paranoid.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by chanakya »

alan5 wrote: post #71

I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :) Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/

I don't think the problem is money, at least for now. They are either running in a datacenter and can't add capacity fast enough, or have a scale bottlenech in their design, and just weren't designed for this scale.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by guerrilla »

dt3ft wrote: post #126
alan5 wrote: post #71

I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :) Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/

Signal is being used by at least 10 well-paid medical professionals (group chat) that I know of, and one of them proclaimed today that Signal is owned by Elon Musk (probably because he tweeted about it). I did not care to educate them. And this is in a first world country with a rather wealthy population. Why am I saying this? Users don't give a damn, they expect free things, and they expect things which work. They h…

I actually wonder if they think they already paid by buying their phone or by paying their subscription.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by 7v3x3n3sem9vv »

lerax wrote: post #165

Forget Signal. Use Telegram, I use since 2013 without any regrets. WhatsApp it was always inferior anyway.

People jumping to signal likely are looking for privacy. The only app that guarantees that right now, with minimal configuration, is Signal.

Jumping from Facebook or WhatsApp to Telegram doesn't make any sense from a privacy perspective. Well Telegram supports secret chats, It unfortunately defaults to non-secret chats, which are just to secure as any old Facebook post. In fact, if we're comparing WhatsApp to Telegram, from a privacy perspective, you would be giving up more data by switching to Telegram because WhatsApp is completely end to end encrypted by default.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by Aaronn »

pmlnr wrote: post #522
chopin24 wrote: post #265

For all of you saying we should switch to Matrix, please outline the user sign up flow in your comment. Be detailed. Your audience is your 50 something aunt who calls her iPad her Facebook.

If matrix.org were to see this level of influx of users, given their constant scaling problems, they would be down in minutes.

The whole point of Matrix is that you don't have to use matrix.org to use Matrix. Anyone can host a server and talk to anyone on any Matrix server.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by C19is20 »

Daniel_sk wrote: post #365

"We have been adding new servers and extra capacity at a record pace every single day this week nonstop, but today exceeded even our most optimistic projections. Millions upon millions of new users are sending a message that privacy matters. We appreciate your patience." https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350165610936766464

Donated. I hope their bank account doesn't crash, too. Still trying to get people to change over.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by C19is20 »

hcurtiss wrote: post #40

This is not good. I've moved so many people over in the last week. For purposes of getting them invested, this is a truly inopportune moment for an extended outage.

It's great! Everyone I 'converted' is now thinking about the implications - from many different angles. Any outage for a few weeks is a win for humans and a huuuuge kick in the nuts for the twats.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by bilal4hmed »

chanakya wrote: post #542
alan5 wrote: post #71

I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :) Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/

I don't think the problem is money, at least for now. They are either running in a datacenter and can't add capacity fast enough, or have a scale bottlenech in their design, and just weren't designed for this scale.

They are hosted on AWS....its definitely seeming like a design issue
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