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If all the interesting stuff happens on the client and the server "just" forwards encrypted messages, why would the server need frequent updates?

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if you go to the main git page https://github.com/signalapp you can see that changes were made to the server 8 hours ago. So something is happening on the server, the public cant see it. I definitely would like to see whats happening given. I trust them, but we definitely need to see whats on the server code.

I think those changes could just be Pull Requests? Not necessarily code merged to master/main.

Unless you’re spotting something that I’m not?

the last PR was 9 hours ago https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/pulls

while the main page says update was 8. Thats what threw me off

I believe the 8 hours ago activity is from someone opening a PR, not some weird trick to update git repositories without being seen.

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