Serious question to those cheering on the deplatforming power of the big tech monopolies:<p>Are you still going to be onboard when Signal is banned from the App stores? How about when backdoors are required?<p>Bear in mind, Signal has <i>no</i> moderation - that's baked into the product.
It's really interesting to see the things people want:<p>1. Stickers<p>2. Status<p>3. Stories<p>4. Chat wallpapers<p>5. etc.<p>I guess it shows the different ways people use chat apps but I don't see any use case for status or understand why people want stories in yet another app. I'm sure they have their reasons though. Quite an interesting thread of requests.
Figure out how people will continue to donate and not deviate from their original mission, given the push from new users for feature parity with Telegram and WhatsApp.<p>I cant imagine that $100mn lasting if people are doing group calls, file transfers etc. because those are expensive activities with the needs for servers, bandwidth.<p>Previously they had the luxury to coast because of that donation, now not so much.
I think Signal should bundle a simple on-screen keyboard, similar to the way banks etc... do it.<p>It always felt weird to me that while I trust Signal developers, all of the text input into the app goes through an on-screen keyboard that might or might not be secure.<p>So basically, on android, while your data doesn't go to Facebook anymore, as far as I can tell it still goes to Google via the keyboard app. Doesn't it?<p>EDIT: It feels to me like a missing piece, but maybe I'm wrong. Please educate me if I am, it's a genuine question :)
Flagging this for an editorialized title, which is against the HN Guidelines for posts like this where a change in title is not required.<p>The tweet says that Signal group calling limit has been raised from 5 to 8 and it continues to say (pun intended) that now you can call it even. I think it’s good to have a limit of 8 as opposed to 5, but it’d be better to bump this to double it further to cover almost everyone’s needs, though that’d require a lot more effort.<p>But Signal, as observed over the years, could do better by focusing on many other features that users and potential switchers consider critical.