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Assuming everyone you know isn't already using Signal, I think the most important "feature" for any existing Signal user is getting more users on there. As far

• parineum 4y ago
  A lot of people love SMS too.
  • kataklasm 4y ago
    No one on this site should love SMS. It's just a huge security vulnerability and while it sucks having to reactivate the built-in SMS app I totally get their reasoning behind it. Having SMS integrated into Signal was damaging their reputation for something they could never have any control over, so why support it? Any business trying to stay alive would repeat their decision on this.
    • parineum 4y ago
      > so why support it? Because it helps me convince new users to try it out. I used to be able to tell people, "You can change your messaging app to Signal and it'll send secure messages to other people on Signal and you'll still be able to send text messages to everyone else." Seamless. Now I have to convince them to use two different apps for messaging. SMS sucks but it has a massive user base. Their reasoning for removing SMS was that it was insecure and people didn't know when they were sending an insecure SMS or a secure Signal message. Loads of people suggested they just put SMS in it's own tab to differentiate them and that was dismissed like it was a dumb idea. Then they add "Stories" (a feature nobody is going to use because they don't have a user base for it) and put it in a separate tab. I honestly don't understand why they think Stories, a feature that caters to social media users, is going to to be used by the new target audience (with the removal of SMS) of security conscious techies.
• 2-718-281-828 4y ago
  but why? it's like an ephemeral facebook post or something?