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Finally some good news from #Signal 🥳
aboutsignal.com/news/signal-is-working-on-registration-without-a-phone-number/
AboutSignalSignal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?Signal is working on a way to sign up without a phone number. The feature has not yet been officially confirmed, and it is not yet known whether it will be available to all users or in what form.
Replying to @rajkopz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
My biggest issue with Signal is that it doesn’t reliably work. I’ll message back and forth with a friend on there and then receive a text message a week later asking why I’m not responding on Signal. And it’s because I didn’t receive the messages.
Replying to @spacegoat@lemmy.world
Never had that myself. My family and i have been using it exclusively for years now.the only tine we fallback is when someone is in an area without data or wifi. Maybe once a year.
Replying to @spacegoat@lemmy.world
Ive had this issue as well. I find it happens when i leave my wifi and go to cell signal. Not sure if its the same for you. I dont think ive had it be almost a week later but its been a few hours or maybe a day
Replying to @spacegoat@lemmy.world
That’s really weird. I use it for my out-of-band chat for work since we all mute our Teams after hours. It’s been reliable the entire 3 years we’ve been using it. Maybe I’m just really lucky?
Replying to @spacegoat@lemmy.world
Works on my machine. :P
Replying to @spacegoat@lemmy.world
Do you have google play services installed? If not, your power optimisation settings might prevent signal from running in the background, which it needs to to receive messages
Weird I have never experienced this (or it was so long ago I don’t remember). We’ve been using Signal absolutely reliably for our family Chat for many years now, and also with other friends.
I don’t think Google Play Services are required, but
your power optimisation settings might prevent signal from running in the background
could have sth to do with it. And that’s accessible through Settings, an App Permissions thing IIRC (although I never needed to do that manually either).
PS: I sent you a dm on a different matter.
Replying to @spacegoat@lemmy.world
Yeah happens to me from time to time. I think it’s special treatment by Android OEMs. I think Samsung really likes to kill background apps even if explicitly told not to. see here.
Maybe It’s expected behavior if Signal is not being used that often. Still weird WhatsApp never has that problem