“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”
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My friends and I tried Signal after the whole WhatsApp privacy issue thing arose.
Signal has been nothing but issues for us, plagued full of bugs. Images half the time would refuse to send. Videos would send but the audio would be slow even though the video itself was fine. Chat would load 200 messages prior then scroll down to the bottom on its own. The app doesn’t have a good way of handling media so it’d grow to be 50GB in size, then if you backup Signal messages that’d double in size again.
Our group chat recently moved away from Signal, it’s not perfect but at least are media is sending fine.
I’m not sure when and what you were trying to send but I use it since at least 7 years and never had anything like that, maybe you should give it another try someday 👍
Pictures and videos. Memes.
It’s not just me, everyone in the group chat of 8 people had the same issues. I won’t be giving Signal another chance.
Issues have been raised for years with no fixes
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4387 - closed but not fixed https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9747 - 3 years old and not fixed
There’s more but I cba to find the issues.
Our group chat sends a lot of video memes. If they don’t play correctly then they don’t want to use Signal. We moved away from Signal 2 weeks ago. We’re in no rush to try it again.
I can’t reproduce any of the issues you’re mentioning. Signal is the only messenger that consistently “just works” over the last few years.
Ok, good for you. That doesn’t change the fact that out of a group chat of 8 people, it happened to every one of us, it’s happened to others and they raised issues on GitHub, and no one in my group wants to use Signal anymore.
Or should I tell them “Xengi on Lemmy said it doesn’t happen to him so we must move back to Signal”?
Yes please go around tell people that. Everyone should know I said that. /s