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Ask HN: Signal Down for You?

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Seemed to go dead sending messages in the middle of the conversation. From phone, or either connected desktop. Internet access on all still work.

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https://status.signal.org/ says they have problems.

I see a recent spike in connectivity problems on Downdetector [1]

[1] - https://downdetector.com/status/signal/

this must be a nightmare for them. for all of the new users theyve picked up this past week, how many will they 'turn off' irrevocably because of this. :/

This is happening as many groups of friends/colleagues are trying it out.. Not a great start for most of us, I wonder how many will give up instead of trying again next week or so.

Dead for all colleagues, friends and family here in The Netherlands. Non-stop "Network Failed!" errors on any device (MacOS, Win10, Android, iOS)

Well, this sucks. I just switched from WhatsApp and few days later this. Can anyone here recommend something more reliable?

This is the first outage i recall

This is unusual, and probably in part due to the influx of many new users, such as yourself. Stick with it, they'll have it back up.

I just upped my monthly donation to the Signal Technology Foundation to help them offset some of their costs.

https://www.signal.org/donate/

All alternatives, like Signal, are getting a huge unexpected influx of new users from Parler's shutdown. One of the others was having similar problems a day or two ago. I think I remember seeing that Signal had the biggest boost, too.

I'd imagine that Signal's increase in popularity is overwhelmingly due to WhatsApp's recent changes to their privacy policy rather than Parler's shutdown. More of my contacts have joined Signal in the last week than they had in the last year. I'd be surprised if any of them were ex-Parler users.

Parler was pretty much the antithesis of end to end encrypted and secure, and Signal serves a very different purpose to Parler. From what I've seen on Parler, their average user would dismiss Signal as being produced by commies and therefore evil, due to its Open Source license.

Go back to WhatsApp. Signal is crashing because it appearantly went up 5x in userbase. I can't guarantee any other service would cope with such a rapid expansion of their userbase other than WhatsApp.

Or stick it out a little and sms people.

502 bad gateway error on some requests - they must be overloaded with the recent migration away from WhatsApp

Too frequently disconnecting/failing, yes. Won't say completely down.

Windows app down for me also.

I'm trying to send message right now and it's not working.

Italy: signal is down right now @ 2021-01-15T16:25:49.988Z

Yes, messages are failing to send.

Partially down for me

Down for me as well.

Same

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