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I've been running the Signal bridge for a couple of months and it seems pretty unstable. Sometimes it stops delivering messages and I have to restart either sig
by GrayShade 5y ago
I've been running the Signal bridge for a couple of months and it seems pretty unstable. Sometimes it stops delivering messages and I have to restart either signald or the bridge. At other times, it broke completely and started working again only after a couple of days, when I updated signald.
I haven't tried the WhatsApp bridge yet because it needs to go through my phone or an Android VM. WhatsApp recently announced support for using WhatsApp Web without the need to have your phone online, but I don't think it's available for everyone yet.
- krageon 5y agoThat's a bummer. I was excited about running a home instance to bridge my (many) chat platforms. To me the point of such a thing is you can set it up and mostly leave it alone, so if it needs frequent fiddling it is mostly not fit for purpose.
- GrayShade 5y agoWell, try it. It's a paid service so you might get some support, or maybe I'm plain unlucky.
- krageon 5y agoI cannot use this service in good conscience because it touches the US, the fact that they were willing to launch a paid service made me wonder about the viability of the components.
- your_challenger 5y agoYes this has been my experience too. The WhatsApp bridge I used had been pretty unstable. I thought it might be a configuration issue from my side.
- rkangel 5y agoI've just signed up (after reading this message). My hope is that as a paid service effort will be made to make it reliable (through development, configuration, whatever). Having some users paying for it should hopefully make issues much more visible (through complaints to support if nothing else!).
- gfdgfdgfdggg 5y agoI've had the opposite experience. I've run a signal bridge for ~6 months with 0 interaction at all from me. This is the mautrix signal bridge, pantalaimon, and Synapse.