I've onboarded friends and family, too, ensuring them it should be set as their default messaging app and that it _just works_. I use Signal for _all messaging_ (e2e secure or not) for the reasons that you mention. This is terrible news from my perspective too. 'we've taken away an incredibly useful and heavily used feature so we have development resource to better implement shitcoins and such' is such an irritating defense of the decision that I disabled my monthly donation. Are they the 'safe for activists' communication app, or the 'let's try to make as many as possible safer by default' app? Feels like they don't know.Īnd on top of it all the messaging is just frustrating. It seems like Signal is on a trajectory to turn everything into disappearing messages. I obviously love having security on messages in transit, but I also like being able to keep my message history around and search my conversations for something that happened a year ago. Signal seems to be trying to move further and further from 'my preferred way to chat with people' and closer to the chat equivalent of 'that protonmail account I only log in to when I need secrecy'. I'm already starting to feel like those iOS users who told me 'I don't want another app'. I also regularly forward an SMS message to a Signal user, or vice versa. Android users have been much more willing to give it a shot.Īs an android user myself, I much prefer having SMS built in because I use the search feature often to look back through all my SMS/Signal chats.

I have repeatedly been unable to convince iOS users to use Signal because 'I don't want another app'.

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