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It’s a shame that Signal has discontinued its support for normal SMS, hadn’t implemented RCS, is spending too much effort on “stickers” and now keeps prodding you to donate money. Then there’s the broken notification with iOS users who just don’t find out that you messaged them until they launch the app.
As a direct result my use of Signal has pretty much ceased.
I can’t blame them for asking for money, it’s a free app but it isn’t free to run.
That said the notifications are royally annoying. My partner has an android, but calls almost never come through and messages are hit and miss.
In their defence: SMS is not secure enough for Signal standards
I think they already fixed the IOS notification issue, at least for the beta/testflight version. But yes, I agree with you that their priorities as of late have been head-scratching.
I suppose their focus has been on bringing signal in line with other contemporary messengers to give it a similar level of appeal as something like WhatsApp, targeted towards “regular (and not necessarily privacy focused) people”.
I admit i really miss SMS integration, that sort of made it Android’s answer to iMessage, except that it’s still available cross platform.
Glad for the addition of user names at least.
