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Would invites be a solution? Anyone can sign up if they provide a number, otherwise you need an invite from someone with a number linked. It would clump the ide
by traviswt 3y ago
Would invites be a solution? Anyone can sign up if they provide a number, otherwise you need an invite from someone with a number linked. It would clump the identity/legitimacy for all invitees into origin number, but still allow disparate accounts.
- novok 3y agoIt’s not about legitimacy but having a bootstrapped contact list to talk to along with other user friction reasons
- serial_dev 3y agoIn that case it doesn't make sense to make it required. Sure, I don't mind if they ask for my phone number if they think that's a better default onboarding flow, but allow users to bypass it. With all that said, I don't think it's really only about user friction.
- illiac786 3y agothey did not "make it required", Signal was just never developed to support anything else for username/registration. Which is what they have now almost corrected.
- serial_dev 3y agosounds required to me.
- illiac786 3y agoIt's wording then. Making something required sounds like an artificial limitation whereas implementing support for usernames requires a lot of work, it's not like they commented out a couple of lines on purpose. What is required at the moment is any phone number, not your phone number. You can use a phone booth even.