Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by zedred on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:54PM (#13132362)

I recently switched from Android to iPhone and was pretty surprised by how much lower quality the Signal app is for iPhone than Android.

Signal for Android was really amazing, and the switch made me think this could be one reason why so many people seem to speak both highly and poorly of Signal. The iPhone app just unfortunately seems to be way behind the Android app.

Not sure why they have prioritized development in that way.

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Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by moosingin3space on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:56PM (#13132999)

I think it's because moxie uses Android.

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Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by joecool1029 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:41PM (#13135732)

This is the correct answer. Moxie dominates signal-android commits. He doesn't work on the iOS version.

The programmer working on the iOS version left early this year. If you look it was pretty stagnant for awhile with him, only really getting bugfixes. Now they have a new maintainer that's been playing catchup and things really only started to get rolling in the past couple months.

See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/graphs/contribu...

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Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by uselpa on Thursday December 08, 2016 @02:46PM (#13133546)

Android owns close to 90% of the market.

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