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• ricardo (@governa) reported a minute ago

  @signalapp Terrible decision. Real deal breaker.

• ZACHARY COFFIN (@ZacharyCoffin) reported 5 minutes ago

  @DirtyZero Something about the way Android manages notifications. If you don't receive messages to @signalapp often, it may not notify you when you do. The app is viewed as 'inactive'. This is especially a problem for new users, who may not have many contacts on Signal yet.

• uncle ted (@129584709_) reported 6 minutes ago

  @iamed2 @mer__edith @signalapp The ratio of people that are getting the decision vs the people trying to defend the awful, terrible decision speaks volumes. Hopefully they will reverse this.

• sysgeek (@sysgeek) reported 7 minutes ago

  @signalapp I hope you all inform your users via the app about this and give very clear instructions for the non-technical users on what to do. Many may choose to leave your service and they need to know that just uninstalling the app will break communication with every other signal user.

• Bryan Eitz (@bryaneitz) reported 9 minutes ago

  @mer__edith @signalapp Thanks for reiterating the talking points and how it's tough for you personally. Doesn't help at all. The rest of us will just stop using signal. Was nice while it lasted

• Raymond T. Anderson (@Kerastes33) reported 13 minutes ago

  @signalapp This is a terrible blow to privacy by default. Right now even my casual texts with a small group of friends are encrypted because they use Signal as their messaging app. Without SMS Signal becomes just another app to bother with, and they won't. My privacy with them is lost.

• ΔI ₳ristotle (@AiAristotle) reported 14 minutes ago

  @signalapp Absolutely terrible decision. Is there a single Signal user that wants to use a separate app for SMS? Is SMS so hard to maintain that @signalapp is the only developer unable to it? You'll lose far more users than spamming our contact lists (again) will gain. 👎👎

• Gokula (@Veer_Gokula) reported 14 minutes ago

  @signalapp This is a bad move. I've used Signal for years and managed to get friends and family to make the move also. One of the reasons being the convenience of using it as the default sms app. If I'm going to be forced down this route then I'll take a look at alternatives like session.

• Pierre-D🔤vid (@ouaibe_) reported 17 minutes ago

  @signalapp If this post at least tried to be honest and mention RCS and its lack of API... But no, the usual Signal anti-federation/siloization BS: crypto for the tech elite, and RCS/WA/FB/TG for the others, when software should help drive that transition.

• ‘ᎫᎢ’ ᎻⅠᏀΗ (@jthigh) reported 20 minutes ago

  @signalapp This is a TERRIBLE idea. I think literally any other way of dealing with this concern would better. You seem to be missing one of the biggest attractions and use cases of your user community!

• Min (@Min75Re) reported 20 minutes ago

  This country is star topology in every form and one massive hub just went down Don't use Telegram, use @signalapp or @element_hq instead

• uncle ted (@129584709_) reported 22 minutes ago

  @JINORU_ @specialjesse @signalapp Everyone who wants the SMS feature to say knows this. They get it. Unfortunately there are people (more now) that won't use or will just switch. Signal will become more desolate and donations will dry up. This is a terrible ******* call.

• Christopher Anthony (@chris122380) reported 23 minutes ago

  @mer__edith @signalapp Helping the problem is not helping to find a solution. Failure to have backward compatibility with SMS/MMS is what has killed almost every messaging app including Google's three or four messaging apps. What makes you think this is helping you rather than putting you in the grave?

• Maddog (@Tolkienista) reported 23 minutes ago

  @olmaverick @signalapp Because signal was the only service that allowed me to integrate SMS and more secure messaging without being owned by a tech giant. It wasn't perfect, or perfectly secure, but it was getting closer and letting me communicate with people who weren't on the privacy bandwagon yet.

• Matthew Fry 🇺🇦 🌻 (@gunslingerfry) reported 27 minutes ago

  @signalapp FWIW, the only problems I've had are that 1. signal is set up with a silly registration system tied to a phone number that doesn't properly unregister people when they uninstall and I send signal messages to nobody.

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