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Re:Signal Desktop by newman314 on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:16PM (#10665874)
It's one device to one device (as stated elsewhere in this thread. Apparently, only Android+Chrome combo is supported for multi-device).

Put differently, I can't register the same number to an iPad and iPhone simultaneously at this time and hope to communicate with someone. It apparently gets things all confused.

I was doing some more testing and it also appears that I'm unable to call someone with a greyed out name but with available phone icon. Once again, no clear indication if this is a bug (not supposed to happen) or a feature (can call but not text).

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Re:Signal Desktop by mapgrep on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:20PM (#10665910)
Oh I see. That is indeed annoying. So I guess this bit from the desktop announcement is a stretch: "....all incoming and outgoing messages are displayed consistently on all your devices." I mean I guess if you ONLY have one phone and a desktop that would be true? And I guess if Signal only allows you to register those two things, it is TECHNICALLY true, in the sense that "all" <= 2
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Re:Signal Desktop by newman314 on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:30PM (#10665988)
And all = Android + Chrome (at least for now).

Since I'm not an Android user, I'm unable to confirm all > 2 scenarios. Someone should try and report back.

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Re:Signal Desktop by frayesto on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @05:20PM (#10666284)
I have Signal on Chrome on multiple computers. It works just as expected with messages shared across Chrome and to the phone.

It's all very fast and working quite well.

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