Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption

Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by smichel17 on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:49AM (#23426709)

Honestly I don't really understand this. I'm a longtime signal user who installed whatsapp recently (family group I had to join) and.. It feels more or less the same to me. Maybe it's because I haven't allowed any unnecessary permissions, but I don't see much functionality that's different. Statuses maybe?

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Re:Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message ... by berdario on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:55AM (#23427456)

I'm not using Signal as heavily as I was in the past (due to the fact that they dropped support for Chromeos), but issues that I personally was annoyed by:

- message delivery was not very reliable when your connection is poor and intermittent (think wifi in the underground between stations)

- when you need to resend a message in a group, you need to tap "retry" once for every recipient in the group

Issues that my friends complained about, justifying their non-use of Signal:

- you cannot create links to allow people to join groups (obviously this is a nonstarter, without first allowing people to be in groups pseudonymously)

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