I recently found out that Signal supports stickers created by users and was very happy about it. For me, the easiest way to install was this site. Thank you, Signal developers!
All I really want is SMS integration back.
I started using Signal recently, so it does not matter for me. I understand why Signal done that. But it is still kinda weird decision.
I’m sure it’s easier to develop now without it. But man… My usage of the app is way down. It no longer integrates with my Tesla. Many of my friends dropped it altogether so now I only have a couple people that communicate with it.
Long term, I don’t think I’ll keep using it. But we’ll see. It was such a great app.
I never looked into why the removed it. Is SMS a securi risk? Maybe they’ll bring it back with RCS.
Because SMS has zero security and including it in a secure messenger gave some people a false sense of security. Basically Signal is for secure messaging, SMS is insecure, therefore it has no place there.
I mean ok, but still a shame I think.
And it was more code to be responsible for test and update
Okay, makes sense. Maybe they’ll reintroduce it with RCS once it’s more widely adopted.
I guess they could, but only if it was just as open and secure a standard as the Signal protocol, which I doubt it will be any time soon
Why? I know noone who uses SMS. Or this is a region specific need?
Pretty much only in the USA
I got 5 people on signal. A chat with my wife, and a chat with my 4 friends from college. I am ok with this.
If people who you most chat with are there, then you are good to go!
I find this feature really cool, I just think that it’s a bummer you can’t remove or edit them later.
You can remove them. Tap the sticker icon on the right side of the text entry field (bottom of the screen). Scroll the bottom stickers’ bar to the right until you see the “+”. Tap it, et voila - you can remove them.
But that does only remove them on your local device, not for others
Message editing is work in progress currently. Discussion link. Really cool feature!
I was talking about about editing the sticker pack, haha. But it’s cool to have message editing somewhat soon available 👍
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And I found that signal likes to delink my windows app and does not allow me to sync history of conversations after I relink it again. This makes signal mostly unusable for me.
But, yes - stickers and stories are nice. Not that sure, however, that people who need them will find signal good enough in general, while people who like signal in general do need stickers and stories.
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Well, not syncing past history is an intended feature, so there’s that.
I know. But this feature must be configurable. Especially since signal loses pairing time to time. This and few other intended features make it hardly usable, some people can accept such discomfort as a price of security, others - don’t.
I completely understand how annoying that is if you care about it. I’m not gonna lie, every now and then I hate it, too.
People want convenience and comfort, and who can blame them. It’s such a big problem nowadays that privacy and data security is not the convenient, default option.
We have to go out of our way to take our privacy back, and most people just won’t bother. And again, completely understandable.
In case of history sync, I do not understand why it cannot be synced with approval from the main device, to be honest.
Maybe it has something to with the encryption, with how forward secrecy works or something like that. But then again, I don’t know enough about how any of this works.
signal is irrelevant since it dropped SMS interop
It is sad 😕
I’m glad they’re doing work. I would love for them to do more substantial work then teenage meme stuff.
Decentralization
Pseudonyms, nicknames. So you can talk to people without giving them your phone number.
Registration without a phone number, perhaps in lieu of a donation
I think nicknames may appear in beta in the not too distant future, as there is already a flag to enable this functionality. A phone number will still be required (you can use a VOIP number if you are not satisfied with this requirement). Decentralization? LOL. It’s not about Signal by any means. The features are already being implemented slowly enough, and with decentralization we’ll never see them at all. You’ll have to go to Matrix or SimpleX for that.
Signal is already illegal in several countries. It’s only a matter of time before it becomes illegal in its host country. Decentralization is the only way forward for a sustainable communication method
I agree. So I personally really like the way SimpleX is evolving. If the developer develops it further in the same direction, then in a year or two we will have a very good alternative to Signal. But decentralized, without a phone number, without the USA.
I love the spoiler feature. I use it on dumb shit all the time, I dont have anything ever to spoil but I just like the effect!
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