What’s even more annoying is they’ve stated they’re against backups in principle. They feel that users shouldn’t back up history and to do so is antithetical to their version of “security”.
It’s the thing I dislike most about Signal. Sadly, there aren’t any good alternatives either.
> “I've tried to report bugs and talk to developers about this but there's one fundamental problem here - the Signal team fundamentally does not value chat history the same way a lot of people do. They think that destroying all chats is a reasonable thing to do when things get hard - which is the exact opposite to many WhatsApp users, which deeply value images and texts sent to them on that platform.”
> “It's not a technical issue - they just think you're wrong when you want to keep your conversations.”
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 27.8 ms ] threadIt’s the thing I dislike most about Signal. Sadly, there aren’t any good alternatives either.
Anyway, this related comment thread notes similar impressions of the Signal team:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686475
> “I've tried to report bugs and talk to developers about this but there's one fundamental problem here - the Signal team fundamentally does not value chat history the same way a lot of people do. They think that destroying all chats is a reasonable thing to do when things get hard - which is the exact opposite to many WhatsApp users, which deeply value images and texts sent to them on that platform.”
> “It's not a technical issue - they just think you're wrong when you want to keep your conversations.”