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I tried to watch the video... But damn the speaker is hard to pay attention to. I barely got through the intro. Honestly, Signal was too unreliable and hard to
by laserbeam 4y ago
I tried to watch the video... But damn the speaker is hard to pay attention to. I barely got through the intro.
Honestly, Signal was too unreliable and hard to use for me. I've lost too many messages, had issues with multi device use (with messages not syncing correctly or not being delivered everywhere). Security is cool but I need more reliability. Also my threat model is not that high.
They just gotta work on reliability and some more joy in the UX for regular folk. Might not be easy but I've seen too little progress in that direction over the years and I don't feel it's high on their priority list. At least that's the optics from a distance.
- dodgerdan 4y agoWhen did you throw in the towel? In the last year or so they’ve been rock solid for reliability. (Note: some Android devices background app memory/power/cpu management of Signal effetely makes any type of messenger useless.)
- MrDresden 4y agoI've been a Signal user for the last 6ish years, and if anything I've noticed message delivery reliability go down in the last year. This is an active discussion point within my circles that something is seriously broken at Signal as we are a large group all having these issues happen to us (i.e not tied to one platform or os version).
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoYeah, something is regularly unexpectedly broken, and it's AWS. Nowhere near "too often", though.
- AnonHP 4y agoUsing Signal has been frustrating for me too, though my usage is minimal. In the last few months I’ve seen messages getting delayed in delivery (like the next day or two). That along with user experience issues (pestering often to sync contacts and turn on notifications, not allowing backups on iOS) makes it hard to recommend it.