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I also deplore this. I hope it's communicated well to users who aren't readers of Signal's blog. I have relatives who use Signal, and they rely on its fallbac

I also deplore this. I hope it's communicated well to users who aren't readers of Signal's blog. I have relatives who use Signal, and they rely on its fallback-to-SMS feature, possibly without fully understanding it. I'll make sure they understand and are aware of this change, but others may be in the same position.

xcdzvyn 4y ago
I fear Signal will follow their recent trend of ignoring unanimous user-base complaints a la Mobilecoin, fdroid, and third-party clients.
- fyvhbhn 4y ago
  ... phone number use, lack of interoperability, keeping server source closed when it fits
- autoexec 4y ago
  That ship sailed a long time ago. Signal's userbase overwhelmingly objected to having their sensitive information permanently stored in the cloud too, but signal ignored them. https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-anything-stored-in-cloud/14057/231 https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-... Even when security concerns were brought up: https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-security-pins-are-too-easy-to-brute-force-sgx-is-not-reliable-enough/15096 https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...