Ask HN: Is Signal Down?

Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down? by bennyp101 on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:08PM (#25793167)

I've never really had any issues with it over the last year or so, but the last week has been a bit spotty - but then my contact list has tripled in length since the whatsapp privacy update and news coverage - so I think its likely that it is demand.

I've setup a matrix homeserver yesterday, and in the process of setting up bridges to Signal/IRC etc so I get a single app with all the chats.

I'm not sure what you need from a web/desktop experience, for me it is a chat app, that I can send an image or txt , I don't really need anything else. YMMV

I would suggest to let it settle down for a few days, then see how it is. I would think that all whatsapp replacements are going to be peaking in use for the next week or so as people try out different things.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down? by 2Gkashmiri on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:20PM (#25795030)

i didnt know you could set up bridges for signal. what does your server look like in terms of users? i want to test it out but dont know what i need to get started (besides the guides and all), just with the server

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Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down? by bennyp101 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @03:55AM (#25801060)

At the moment, it is me and a handful of other tech friends who are setting up servers of their own.

We've been installing things manually to test out different parts, but I think I'll be switching to a docker setup this weekend (purely for ease of setup)

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

There are all sorts of bridges and bots:

https://matrix.org/bridges/ https://matrix.org/bots/

Once I have it roughly figured out, I'll look at paying to get some redundancy sorted, and then stick to this as my communications going forward.

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