68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
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68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
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Re: 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
#2Im confused .. people are debating wether it's good to track what keyboard people use but instead of tracking which keyboard peoeple use, would it be not simpler for signal to basically build their own integrated keyboard and deactivate the android default one ?
Re: 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
#3Im confused .. people are debating wether it's good to track what keyboard people use but instead of tracking which keyboard peoeple use, would it be not simpler for signal to basically build their own integrated keyboard and deactivate the android default one ?
This is likely the result of this discussion. To fix an issue (decide to commit dev resources to develop an integrated keyboard, communicate to users the data leakage risk of using a keyboard not integrated into the app), you must first raise said issue and perform discovery.
Re: 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
#4I thought Signal came out with their own keyboard and I was excited.
Re: 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
#5Obviously due to the fact that Chinese input could be better optimized by third parties.
Re: 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
#6I'm not sure the headline reflects the discussion issue...It is anecdotal on how many Chinese users are using Signal, but the concern is that so many use third-party keyboards it could be compromising the secure nature of Signal (and the discussion is advocating for users to be made aware of the risks of using third party keyboards with Signal)
Re: 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
#7I thought Signal came out with their own keyboard and I was excited.
Even if they did, creating a Chinese IME is a really difficult problem space. Since typing is generally done phonetically in mainland/HK/taiwan and the real words being typed are ideographic, there's a lot of inference to translate in between.
Considering how quickly the language moves to keep up with internet culture and new newsworthy names, new parlances, new memes, an IME has to do the equivalent of staying up to date with the equivalent of urbandictionary for users to be able to invoke the latest "lit" colloquialism. This is a full-time job on its own.
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#10I thought Signal came out with their own keyboard and I was excited.
Even if they did, creating a Chinese IME is a really difficult problem space. Since typing is generally done phonetically in mainland/HK/taiwan and the real words being typed are ideographic, there's a lot of inference to translate in between. Considering how quickly the language moves to keep up with internet culture and new newsworthy names, new parlances, new memes, an IME has to do the equivalent of staying up to…
The side effects of chinese not adopting a phonographic writing system when it could, or having both like japanese does so you don’t need to use such an informal ambiguous layer when actually writing.