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I’d really like to have a more sane version of Signal as a fork, which allows the maintaining of compatibility, but given how hostile they’ve been towards this
by RL_Quine 6y ago
I’d really like to have a more sane version of Signal as a fork, which allows the maintaining of compatibility, but given how hostile they’ve been towards this sort of thing I suspect it would be unmaintainable.
- jtl999 6y agoThey don't block third party clients ala WhatsApp, but going on GitHub and arguing with people isn't a good thing either :/
- marssaxman 6y agoI think I liked Signal better when it was just encrypting text and sending it over SMS. I noticed recently that someone has been maintaining such a fork, under the name "Silence", but haven't had a chance to try it yet.
- cvwright 6y agoI used Silence as my primary SMS app for several years while I was on Android. Overall I had no complaints. Beware though, they seem to have been booted out of the Play Store at some point, so you might need to install through F-Droid.
- Jarwain 6y agoFrom what I understand, they are fine with forks of Signal as long as these forks have distinct branding and don't depend on OWS services to operate, I'd imagine because they don't want the operational burden of ensuring the compatibility of third party clients nor confused users going to OWS for support instead of the third party devs. Which, imo, is a pretty reasonable decision.