Signal Is Up and Running

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by karlzt • 6 years ago

37 18 6 years ago

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karlzt• 6 years ago

Signal is back. https://nitter.net/signalapp/status/1350595202872823809

xenocratus• 6 years ago

I'm afraid that some people who were trying to jump over or who had done so recently had a horrible experience and might go back, especially since Whatsapp is delaying the policy now

tobib2• 6 years ago

My circle almost went to Telegram over this but I was able to avoid it

416chad• 6 years ago

It's too bad telegram doesn't support e2ee (in a meaningful, useful way) because their client is actually quite nice.

apatheticonion• 6 years ago

Compared to other chat services, Signal sadly doesn't offer a feature rich/ergonomic chat platform. I am actively using it but I feel I have gone backwards in terms of user experience.

hliyan• 6 years ago

That's odd. After several years of WhatsApp use, my wife and I installed Signal yesterday. We're yet to notice any significant gap.

tobib2• 6 years ago

Stupid thing I know but I liked the per chat configurable backgrounds in WhatsApp.

efwfwef2• 6 years ago

Really? I find whatsapp light years ahead in terms of user experience. I'm a heavy user of Signal, and I'm cheering for their success, but they have a long way to go.

0xy2• 6 years ago

Neither Signal nor WhatsApp compare to Telegram in terms of client quality, reliability or customisability.

decrypt3• 6 years ago

WhatsApp/Signal and Telegram are completely different platforms. The formers focus on end-to-end encrypted conversations, while Telegram focuses on speed, functionality, and security. While I appreciate their open-source client apps and promise for offering a secure chat experience, it doesn't change that their chats (1:1 non-secret chats and group chats) are not end-to-end encrypted. WhatsApp and Signal are superior solutions in comparison.

Edit to add: My point being, with their focuses (at least Signal's) being on offering end-to-end encrypted communication, it feels normal that they are not able to focus efforts on improving client experience. Hopefully something that they are able to achieve in the coming months.

efwfwef2• 6 years ago

post mortem??

decrypt3• 6 years ago

They hope to publish that in the coming days. Here's Moxie's tweet about it. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1350651382659903488

jez• 6 years ago

Daniel Novak on Twitter posted this[1] after reading the Signal-Android commit history[2]:

"I think the @signalapp apps DDoS'ed the server. Servers ran over capacity due to influx of users and started to return HTTP 508 which was not handled by the app and millions of apps started retrying the connection at once. Judging from recent commits in https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/master"

Surely a timely reminder for all of us:

- Avoid infinite retry loops

- Build jitter and exponential backoff into retry logic

The code isn't terribly hard to write, but remembering to write it can be (if your HTTP client doesn't do it by default).

[1] https://twitter.com/NovakDaniel/status/1350471722034745348

[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/master

Shadonototro• 6 years ago

While this kind of issue happen everytime when something becomes promoted all of the media, everywhere, overnight, i am glad i went with Telegram instead of signal, 24 hours downtime is huge for a messaging app

Signal Is Up and Running

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