Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption

Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by hjek on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:28AM (#23425630)

My opinion is the opposite, because Electron is quite heavy (which is an issue for Signal Desktop at least), and because you can't use browser containers to use multiple accounts.

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Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by sorenjan on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:06AM (#23426480)

There are other options than Electron. Telegram's desktop app is a big factor to why I use it.

There's one big drawback though that's relevant here, and that is that it doesn't support E2E encrypted chats, those are confined to the phone app. I guess it's a security feature, I haven't looked into it too much, but I don't think it would be that difficult to share keys locally between devices you own.

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Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by hiq on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:09AM (#23426502)

Workaround for Signal for 2 accounts: you can use the beta version, which uses a different data folder, to use two different accounts.

Obviously that'd be better to have a configurable data folder.

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