On Android, pull down on your chat list to show *just* your unread messages. Clear notifications quickly and respond to your waiting friends.
@signalapp using Signal for 7+ years. Congrats and thx to the team. Personally I don't need all these features and eye candy but I accepted that I wouldn't have been able to convince a lot of people to move away from WA without them.
To me privacy and security is key. I'd really love to see getting rid of the phone number being required.
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Many privacy and security hardcores liked the early Signal for what it was most capable of: being a relatively useable/convenient and relatively secure messenger. But we should not forget that for years, Signal messages were hardly "instant"...
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@statler
...but I think that now Signal has the chance to iron out a few big last steps for the security crowd, like usernames.
@threemaapp does this pretty well with usernames *and* the option for contact discovery...
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@statler
Which basically just leaves decentralization as something Signal cannot offer, as I understand it, the architecture would have to be rebuilt from the ground up for that...
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@statler
I really like what Signal has become though, and hope that features like stories and usernames get built out even more to include stuff like permanent stories and alias/disposable usernames.
I could totally see Signal becoming a viable social media alternative.
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@statler
...Signal is in a new phase now, going from being just useable to being so convenient and feature-rich that it might just be widely useable.
The online Signal community is still pretty niche, so most people never noticed the Payments tab that is so often complained about...
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