Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption
Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption
On this forum there is open discussion about Taking ownership of Signal Flatpak, but in my humble opinion, we need to have some measurements, before we can be taken more seriously by Signal desktop team. Can you please answer to bellow questions. Thank you. Which Signal on phone are you using: p...
There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.
This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.
Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current "Linux = Ubuntu" .deb repo.
To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.
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How about putting it on F-droid? That won't happen as they ship to much proprietary software.
Signal wants to provide updates themselfs to make sure they are fast in case of big security bug. F-Droid can lag behind to provide new version of app.
But they should at least provide F-Droid repo.
F-droid is only a few days behind at most. They are arguing against F-droid with evidence that's out of date. I think it has more to do with laziness than anything.
The good news is that Molly exists.
Laziness is a very negative way of putting it. Another would be prioritisation - with limited budget, what is the best way to get as many people as possible to have their communications encrypted?
with limited budget, what is the best way to get as many people as possible to have their communications encrypted?
They could dump their existing code that let users SMS non-Signal users and upgrade it automatically to E2EE if the other number has Signal. Oh wait, that would worth adoption, nevermind.
That would've been great to keep, and the Signal team thinks so too, but they were kinda forced to remove it by Google: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms-support-from-signal-android-very-soon/47954/57
Its so strange that you need to use Twinhelix' random project or Molly, as Signal doesnt care