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Ask HN: Is Signal down?

20 pointsthsowers17 comments

Can't send texts, colleagues reporting same thing

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7869

US East 1: https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Mildly related, I found that Signal no longer allows exporting the message database, so I cannot escape. I have many important and cherished messages in there and I'd like to export them. Does anyone know of a solution?

settings -> chats and media -> chat backup

and here's an open source project to decrypt them:

https://github.com/xeals/signal-back

Thank you!

May I ask what constitutes and important or cherished message?

I switch devices (phones / computers) every couple of years, and I like "starting fresh". I backup photos and videos but that's it. I tend to consider messages as ephemeral. a text message about the birth of a child or the death of a relative matters in the moment, but the real keepsakes are the experiences and memories in meatspace.

I've had bosses that wanted their text messages restored to their new phone because there was great joke someone texted them three years ago. FFS. Business reasons / legal requirements OK, but these weren't.

(Not saying you're wrong - I tend to work differently to my peers - just looking for context)

Not the parent, but I still have the text messages from when I was starting to date my now wife, 10 years ago. It's fun to look at those every few years.

AWS us-east-1 is having serious EC2 issues. So many sites are having problems.

Must be region us-east-1c having issues, it's not clear from the communique. They talk about 1 AZ but don't mention which one.

The az’s letters are assigned differently in each account. Your C may not be someone else’s C

Interesting, I had no idea.

Parts of Virginia are under a flash flood warning. Related?

If you ping textsecure-service.whispersystems.org, it points to localhost 127.0.0.1

Wonder if this is a misconfig / related to AWS error / legal action

Looks like it's back. If it still doesn't work, try stopping the app and clearing your DNS cache (or restarting the device).

https://outage.report/signal

God damnit, I uninstalled and tried to reinstall assuming it was just me. Now I have I to re-check keys with everyone :(

Down for me too

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