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Ask HN: Signal Down for You?
Seemed to go dead sending messages in the middle of the conversation. From phone, or either connected desktop. Internet access on all still work.
- axiomdata316 6y agoI'm trying to send message right now and it's not working.
- jessems 6y agoPartially down for me
- guerrilla 6y agoSame
- JosephRedfern 6y agoYes, messages are failing to send.
- dkarp 6y ago502 bad gateway error on some requests - they must be overloaded with the recent migration away from WhatsApp
- LinuxBender 6y agoI see a recent spike in connectivity problems on Downdetector [1] [1] - https://downdetector.com/status/signal/ https://downdetector.com/status/signal/
- ciucanu 6y agoWindows app down for me also.
- blockfish 6y agoDead for all colleagues, friends and family here in The Netherlands. Non-stop "Network Failed!" errors on any device (MacOS, Win10, Android, iOS)
- crossroadsguy 6y agoToo frequently disconnecting/failing, yes. Won't say completely down.
- styx31 6y agohttps://status.signal.org/ https://status.signal.org/ says they have problems.
- monkeybutton 6y agoDown for me as well.
- 01acheru 6y agoItaly: signal is down right now @ 2021-01-15T16:25:49.988Z
- bitcharmer 6y agoWell, this sucks. I just switched from WhatsApp and few days later this. Can anyone here recommend something more reliable?
- hprotagonist 6y agoThis is the first outage i recall
- wck0 6y agoThis is unusual, and probably in part due to the influx of many new users, such as yourself. Stick with it, they'll have it back up. I just upped my monthly donation to the Signal Technology Foundation to help them offset some of their costs. https://www.signal.org/donate/ https://www.signal.org/donate/
- Izkata 6y agoAll alternatives, like Signal, are getting a huge unexpected influx of new users from Parler's shutdown. One of the others was having similar problems a day or two ago. I think I remember seeing that Signal had the biggest boost, too.
- JosephRedfern 6y agoI'd imagine that Signal's increase in popularity is overwhelmingly due to WhatsApp's recent changes to their privacy policy rather than Parler's shutdown. More of my contacts have joined Signal in the last week than they had in the last year. I'd be surprised if any of them were ex-Parler users. Parler was pretty much the antithesis of end to end encrypted and secure, and Signal serves a very different purpose to Parler. From what I've seen on Parler, their average user would dismiss Signal as being produced by commies and therefore evil, due to its Open Source license.
- TheOperator 6y agoGo back to WhatsApp. Signal is crashing because it appearantly went up 5x in userbase. I can't guarantee any other service would cope with such a rapid expansion of their userbase other than WhatsApp. Or stick it out a little and sms people.
- marliechiller 6y agothis must be a nightmare for them. for all of the new users theyve picked up this past week, how many will they 'turn off' irrevocably because of this. :/
- alinde 6y agoThis is happening as many groups of friends/colleagues are trying it out.. Not a great start for most of us, I wonder how many will give up instead of trying again next week or so.