In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
  • Tja@programming.dev
    9·
    13 days ago

    I’m confused. Wasn’t there a secure backup functionality? How are they “introducing” it?

    I migrated my signal history twice already… Not three times, because last year the backup always failed at 9%, no matter what I tried for a week, losing the better part of a decade of messages in the process.

    Maybe they fixed the functionality?

  • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    13 days ago

    While this is good since it provides some revenue beyond donations and also simplifies data backups, I think it’s kind of ridiculous that they still have not implemented a way to restore backups cross-platform (it’s just left as something they plan to do in the future). Like, is it really that hard to just export and import a file in a standard format?

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
    21·
    13 days ago

    Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.

    Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.

    • magikmw@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      If I understand this right, it’s not really it. If you delete messages in the chat, they will also disappear from the backup as it gets uploaded again.

      This doesn’t seem to be an archiving solution.