Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

Post by bragr » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC

dnebdal wrote: post #528

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Given the bizarre backlash here from people that think sms comms are ok I reckon I’ll start a monthly contribution.

Oh no, the "did you remember to lock the door to the auditorium" messages I send to my boss may be unencrypted. The humanity. What do you purists use to talk to all the random people around you? Do you reply "I'm sorry, it's too insecure for me to answer that, you'll have to install Signal first" messages when more distant colleagues ask you if you're at your desk right now? Do you teach your grandmother to use Whats…

Post by BowBun » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 5:51 PM UTC

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I agree completely here. This is terrible news from my perspective too. I use Signal for _all messaging_ (e2e secure or not) for the reasons that you mention. I've onboarded friends and family, too, ensuring them it should be set as their default messaging app and that it _just works_. Unfortunately, people in the general population seem to have pretty much zero tolerance for any friction whatsoever. If they have to…

If they have to use 2 apps, they'll just end up communicating with me in the clear using their "default SMS" app on their phone. That's what this is going to result it...a reduction in overall message security due to people defaulting to what's easier...which is to _not_ have to remember which app to use for which "send a message" purpose. Fuck. Exactly right. In fact, I will be doing this too. Right now, I use Signa…

Post by midmagico » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 7:55 PM UTC

daedalus_j wrote: post #149

I've been using Signal for a long time. I have repeatedly been unable to convince iOS users to use Signal because "I don't want another app". Android users have been much more willing to give it a shot. As an android user myself, I much prefer having SMS built in because I use the search feature often to look back through all my SMS/Signal chats. I also regularly forward an SMS message to a Signal user, or vice versa…

Post by codethief » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 8:18 PM UTC

codethief wrote: post #342

Many people have commented on why this is devastating news regarding future adoption of Signal. But there is a second part to the announcement that hasn't received a lot of attention yet: > If you want to keep them, you’ll also need to export your SMS messages from Signal into that new app. So that means my text messages will be removed from my Signal chat history? Put differently, considering how many of my contacts…

Post by daedalus_j » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 8:58 PM UTC

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KDE is such a great example of how to do it right that I didn't even think of it. It just works so well and so transparently that I forget how great it is sometimes. Rock solid and both works and looks great right out of the box. So customizable that using literally anything else feels like using a Fisher-Price computer for toddlers.

That review of KDE is so over-the-top it almost reads like satire. Is KDE really that great? (Using Gnome under Ubuntu - no complaints here. But I also am not sure what KDE is giving you. Control over look-and-feel of the windowing environment? Default utility applications? Perhaps a desktop API thick-client programmers can write against?