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How do you know if your contacts use Signal and know to use that app instead of SMS/Messages or whatever? With the SMS integration it was pretty easy because i

How do you know if your contacts use Signal and know to use that app instead of SMS/Messages or whatever? With the SMS integration it was pretty easy because it would just switch over if the other person had Signal or if/when they signed up in the future. What's the workflow now? Manually ask them on SMS if they use Signal? Just try it and see if it works? This sounds like one of those "Don't Worry! Rejoice! We're breaking your things!" announcements that hasn't even thought about how people use Signal IRL. I'm going to stop my monthly subscription to Signal Foundation.

fluidcruft 4y ago
Edit: after reading the explanation in the community forum linked here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33181636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33181636 I have instead come around to support this move 200% and have instead doubled my monthly subscription. The explanation at the blog post is an abomination, however. Leave SMS and all its shitty successors for Apple and Google and carriers to kill/maintain.
- velosol 4y ago
  Holy crap you weren't kidding! The blog post needs to be shelved and redone as every listed reason feels post hoc while the reasons listed at that link ([1] for anyone who dislikes friction) are grounded in reality and show Signal being proactive. [1]: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms-support-from-signal-android-soon/47954/57 https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...
  - wardedVibe 4y ago
    Its more understandable, but its still a major headache for those of us not forced into google's RCS walled garden.
    - fluidcruft 4y ago
      What about the issue it mentions of replies to SMS coming over RCS and never arriving in SMS apps? I'm inclined to agree with the assessment that all 3rd-party SMS on Android are toast. Eventually only the device's/carrier's stock messanger will be reliable.

fluidcruft 4y ago

Edit: after reading the explanation in the community forum linked here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33181636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33181636 I have instead come around to support this move 200% and have instead doubled my monthly subscription. The explanation at the blog post is an abomination, however. Leave SMS and all its shitty successors for Apple and Google and carriers to kill/maintain.

velosol 4y ago
Holy crap you weren't kidding! The blog post needs to be shelved and redone as every listed reason feels post hoc while the reasons listed at that link ([1] for anyone who dislikes friction) are grounded in reality and show Signal being proactive. [1]: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms-support-from-signal-android-soon/47954/57 https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...
- wardedVibe 4y ago
  Its more understandable, but its still a major headache for those of us not forced into google's RCS walled garden.
  - fluidcruft 4y ago
    What about the issue it mentions of replies to SMS coming over RCS and never arriving in SMS apps? I'm inclined to agree with the assessment that all 3rd-party SMS on Android are toast. Eventually only the device's/carrier's stock messanger will be reliable.