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Not your contacts, but everyone [already using Signal] who has you as a contact. To remove that functionality would be equivalent to removing the ability to lo
by anjbe 4y ago
Not your contacts, but everyone [already using Signal] who has you as a contact.
To remove that functionality would be equivalent to removing the ability to look up if a Signal message can be sent to a particular number. At least as long as phone numbers are used as the sole identifier for Signal accounts—another decision that has been debated into the ground, of course, but was done for understandable reasons.
- baq 4y agoyes, thanks for the correction. that is mostly a UX problem, not a technical problem: people are surprised that signal tells others that they created an account, and this isn't a pleasant surprise IME. doubly so (more, actually) if you've got a stalker who has your phone number.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoI've even had people start arguing with me as if I'd created the new conversation on their Signal list.
- ComodoHacker 4y agoThat would also remove the ability to easily transfer your existing social graph, which would kill adoption. You don't actually have any other choice if you target for mass adoption.