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Signal outage is keeping messages from sending

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29 pointsismailegilmez11 comments

Large discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25793483

Please remember that they are non-profit and consider to donate: https://signal.org/donate/

Remember this is a centralized service, and all centralized services are doomed to fail for short periods or forever.

If you believe control of the world's communications should be open and distributed, I suggest supporting Matrix instead.

It would be more accurate to state that *all services are doomed to fail for short periods of forever* which ultimately means nothing. Everything will fail at some point, even your chosen decentralized service.

I do agree that decentralized is the way forward, but there's no way I'd ever ask my grandma to install Matrix.

Matrix is a Discord/IRC replacement - a significantly better alternative! But let's not delude ourselves into thinking it's going to replace text/SMS, which is the primary use case for WhatsApp/Signal.

I can send my grandma a link to Signal, and she would be able to get it working, and I'm already in her contacts! There's no way I'd attempt the same with Matrix/Riot/Element/Fluffy chat.

Are you guys still experiencing trouble? I have had zero issues since this morning (central European time). There might be some delays that are longer than usual, but never longer than say 4-5 seconds.

Yes, I'm still getting messages that don't decrypt properly sometimes.

I have friends still running into problems. They received my message but they had to reply to me in whatsapp

Anyone have good experience with their desktop client? I downloaded it and linked it, but it is refusing to import my contact list. Seems very janky overall (crashed twice in 10 mins).

I use it without any trouble on Linux and Windows.

I use it without trouble on mac, windows, and linux. If you are having trouble today or yesterday it might be related to the outage.

Seems working now.

Maybe the ecosystem was moving too fast.

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