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Comment by brianpgordon | Hacker News Reader

Kind of weird posting the app as a submission like this, given that it's pretty well-known and HN search turns up hundreds of discussions about it. This is kind of like posting a link to slack.com.

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The community is not static, and new people join every day. Also, lots of people never heard about signal and would be interested to learn about it.

I read HN fairly regularly and this is the first I’ve heard of it. Not hard to imagine missing something as I don’t read every article posted on HN.

Just speculation, but after reading about this app I would be kind of shocked if slack wasn’t at least an order of magnitude more popular, so not a very apt comparison I’d say.

I read HN fairly regularly and this is the first I’ve heard of it. Not hard to imagine missing something as I don’t read every article posted on HN.

It became more useful and stable since last discussed

Interesting say more

Encrypted backup and restore works now. Including media.

For how long though? Signal Android has repeatedly broken its backup functionality with no warning, it seems the Signal team is not testing this feature regularly.

iOS users are still out of luck on message backup too :c

So then it should refer to a press release, release announcement, github commit, or whatever. Just linking to the site and saying "Snowden supports it!" isn't really useful.

Yes, on Android at least the photo selection is better now, you can mark up photos and in general it's on par with other messengers. In the past year or so it's definitely filled out, feature-wise. Audio message UI has been improved.

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