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Signal’s Eternal September?

• pridkett 6y ago
  It’s an old reference to Usenet and AOL. It used to be that many Usenet groups had problems every fall when new college students would discover Usenet after getting internet access for the first time at their university. In general this meant posts that went against the norms of many groups. It would usually straighten itself out after a few months, but in general, September was a rougher month. Then, sometime in the mid 90’s (maybe 95?), AOL gave its users access to Usenet. This meant a steady flow of new users who didn’t adhere to norms of the newsgroups. Therefore, the Eternal September. Same concern now as it seems like everyone is discovering Signal. I’m not sure how much I agree as signal is primarily small group chats where norms can be better enforced.
• im3w1l 6y ago
  This is about tone on the Signal Community Forums, not within the Signal App. As Signal is an encrypted chat app, there is no Signal culture within the app that could Eternal September.
  • intended 6y ago
    No i meant in the community forums - since there’s likely been a large addition of users in the past few days due to WhatsApp. I suspect a decent chunk of tech forward people have moved. So I was wondering it if was Eternal September for the forums. But I think I see where you are coming from = there is a finite number of people who will come to a coding forum, not an unbending wave, which would make Eternal September less of a good fit.
• baryphonic 6y ago
  It's an old reference, sir, but it checks out. I was about to clear it.