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I haven't moved any friends in the last week, but I've gotten lots of notifications in Signal of many friends joining this week. Hopefully it just requires som
by KMag 6y ago
I haven't moved any friends in the last week, but I've gotten lots of notifications in Signal of many friends joining this week. Hopefully it just requires some simple modifications of some parts of their infra that they didn't realize were scaling bottlenecks.
Based on my friends, mostly foreigners and English-speaking locals here in Hong Kong, Signal has grown about 20% in the past week.
- hnrodey 6y agoI'm a new Signal user myself (maybe six weeks or so). In the past week there's been a huge influx of my contacts joining Signal. I will continue to use iMessages for my iOS contacts. For SMS people I will gently nudge (hey, have you tried Signal? and then let the convo go where it does) and then use Signal as the primary for those people.
- KMag 6y agoIs SMS still popular in your part of the world? I literally haven't gotten an SMS from a human in the past 9 years. Here in Hong Kong, SMS is how your bank sends notifications, and for spam. The chat space is vastly dominated by Weixin/WeChat and WhatsApp.
- macintux 6y agoIn the U.S. I’ve never had anyone suggest messaging other than SMS, FB, or (long ago) Twitter.
- hnrodey 6y agoUnited States. I'm 37. 99.9% of messaging (for me) occurs via iMessages or SMS. FB Messenger is occasionally used for people who are more acquaintances (don't have their phone number). I don't really have a good reason to not use iMessages (blue bubbles). Reasonably secure and Just Works. SMS on the other hand.... my least favorite part of SMS (besides the complete lack of security) is that media messages are crippled in quality. Photos and videos are compressed and distorted beyond belief.
- ptero 6y agoUnited States too. Same feeling that most messages are iMessage or SMS. But as one of two extended family members with Android against ~10 with iPhones, for me iMessages are pretty horrible. They mostly work most of the time, but frequently there are glitches on glitches. SMS between Android phones are rock solid. Just a single data point.
- samoa42 6y ago> SMS between Android phones are rock solid not just android, they work with every mobile handset even with the poorest reception or (even lack of) data-plan. i use ~200 sms per year, pretty constant since i got my first mobilephone. kinda sad we didnt come up with something better thou.
- interestica 6y agoIt's an interesting anecdotal-metric. I've seen Telegram to Signal signups at about 5:1 for my contacts.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agoSignal grew 5x in one day[1]. A week before Musk amplified the WhatsApp story with his "Use Signal"[2] tweet. It then did the rounds on MSM. WhatsApp shoots itself in the foot (though IMO it's a blip in their stats). Parler (thankfully) has been kicked off AWS. All good news for alternative messaging technology. https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1349577579091566592 https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1349577579091566592 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153 edit: as daniel_sk points out this is not a x5 increase but crossing the threshold from 10+ to the next 50+ mm downloads.
- Daniel_sk 6y agoGoogle Play has 10m+ and then 50m+ step. So if you have 40m users then you still are in the 10m+ bracket.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agothanks I didn't know this, so it's most probably not a x5 increase but just a cross of this threshold.