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Other than the memory usage - these are problems I've encountered thus far: - It said it was 'Importing contacts and messages' when I signed in without first
by smcleod 9y ago
Other than the memory usage - these are problems I've encountered thus far:
- It said it was 'Importing contacts and messages' when I signed in without first prompting me if that was OK.
- Importing contacts and messages failed.
- Manually importing contacts fails.
- Conversations show up, but each message just shows as an error.
- Deleting a conversation doesn't delete it, it just makes it as read.
- Messages marked as read randomly reappear as unread.
- Incorrect unread message count next to conversations list.
- Messages often don't arrive at all, seems at random.
- The application loses it's 'link' to your account seemingly at random upon launch and needs to be relinked.
- Appears to use an outdated version of electron with published security vulnerabilities.
- darklajid 9y agoI'm not trying to be snarky here, but .. did you report those on GitHub / to the Signal developers?
- Vinnl 9y agoLink to lower the barrier: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/new https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/new
- aluhut 9y agoNot a single of those happened to me. Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your PC? It uses 130MB RAM here (Win). How much is it on your side?
- mrmondo 9y agoHowdy, glad to hear it’s less for you, that’s a much more reasonable amount of memory to use but are you sure you’re including all active memory from each of its processes / worker threads?
- 72deluxe 9y agoCall me old, but how can a messaging app like this use 130MB RAM? I am exasperated that Skype on my machine is using 109MB with only one conversation window open. We seemed to get by with MSN Messenger with far less RAM, and the features were pretty much identical. It boggles the mind how memory-intensive some of the modern apps are. It's insane.
- pjmlp 9y ago"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster." -- Niklaus Wirth
- wh313 9y agoIt's because Electron has taken over desktop app development. While it does significantly lower the knowledge barrier to building desktop applications, it does come with a heavy memory overhead.
- StavrosK 9y agoHonest question: What's an easy-to-use, popular cross-platform framework with bindings to a sane language? Something like QT/GTK to Python? I hate Electron, but what's the alternative? I used wxWindows back in the day, with Boa Constrictor, and I loved that workflow.
- Multicomp 9y agoSo I don't know about the definition for popular or sane languages but FWIW Lazarus is a free framework for producing truly portable, native applications for Windows/Mac/Linux/Android/iOs from the same code project. Think FOSS child of Delphi from back in the day.
- StavrosK 9y agoAh, yes, I've heard good things about Lazarus. The problem with it is that it uses its own language (Delphi, as you say), so it's got its own ecosystem and things. No matter how good the UI toolkit is, it's not worth giving up all the niceties of a language with an extensive ecosystem, for me. It's a pity, because Lazarus does seem fantastic for desktop application development...
- pokemongoaway 9y agoI had a load of problems when I first installed it and tried to migrate. A main issue was that it took a while for the "migrate" function to appear in the Chrome app.
- equalunique 9y agoMost of these problems happened to me when I switched signal apps between phones. It all started working again within the same hour.