> Even the webapp requires a linked smartphone; a phone number is [currently] a hard requirement of Signal. I never said otherwise. What I said was: > Signal

> Even the webapp requires a linked smartphone; a phone number is [currently] a hard requirement of Signal. I never said otherwise. What I said was: > Signal text and voice chat works just fine if all of your communicating party's machines are offline. This was in response to an assertion that Signal was designed for the "always-online" world. Signal works just fine when your contact is completely offline for extended periods of time.