Signal is experiencing technical difficulties

Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by noja on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:58AM (#28670107)

I'm seeing usage fall off among my network, because it doesn't replace WhatsApp:

* it can't save photos to the camera roll

* notifications are hit and miss

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by agilob on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:04AM (#28670153)

>* notifications are hit and miss

Blame your Android distribution https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/5085#issu...

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by neogodless on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:10AM (#28670836)

This might actually solve the issue for me. I'll update a setting and see.

(The setting is allowing Signal to run without "intelligent" battery optimization. Will also have to see if it affects battery life.)

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by noja on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:35PM (#28675661)

It's on iOS.

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by georgyo on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:01AM (#28670130)

I'm guessing your an iPhone user.

It's not an excuse, but I've seen other people on iOS have similar problems.

Both of these issues do not exist on Android versions of Signal.

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by mike_pol on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:03AM (#28670762)

Yeah I had exactly the same problem myself on iOS, I'm really promoting it to all my friends and family but this is quite a bad bug. Also I've noticed that sometimes that calls don't connect through and the person will only notice the missed call when he relaunches the app.

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by Markoff on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:21AM (#28671754)

used signal for years before it became trendy recently, it had always problems with delivering messages when switching between mobile data and wifi, whatsapp will choose best connection almost instantly, it took Signal minutes or didn't choose it at all

heck for years you could not even select multiple photos to share at once from file picker

I vivily remember how Signal didn't work for like 8 hours because it was during night in US and the responsible person was sleeping, so these 3 hours outage is nothing with this profesionally managed client/network

that last drop was when they started to nag me with mandatory PIN code through half screen, then we just left with extended family, F that

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by neogodless on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:07AM (#28670795)

Oops, just seeing this. I put a similar comment about notifications not working for me on Android or Windows.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28670777

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by david_allison on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:32AM (#28670443)

> notifications are hit and miss

If you're on Android, check out https://dontkillmyapp.com/

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by atatatat on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:01AM (#28670134)

I have 47 people I've personally transitioned to the app, and haven't had notification issues — check OS settings, use better phone.

Saving pictures also works fine.

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by NoImmatureAdHom on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:24PM (#28672684)

I can save photos just fine, and notifications aren't a problem. iOS?

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Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties by i21QMgplhRJs2OL on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:10AM (#28670829)

On iOS:

1. Click Photo.

2. Click Share Sheet.

3. Click save photo.

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