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