From the website, thought this would be good to call out: "Signal Update Info is not affiliated with Signal and is not an official Signal website."
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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oh, that's very important to know
Yes you are right but the website links github commits as sources
Can someone explain use case for me? I assume it's for folks who don't autodelete messages and want the encryption and non-spying but the same chat 'archive' of other apps like FB Messenger, WhatsApp, etc.?
Pretty much yea
I'd like to have this replace messenger/WhatsApp/etc. for as many people as possible
Like if you drop your phone and it gets run over by a truck, you can buy a new phone and have all of your chat history still.
Your link is broken, here's the working link
https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html
EDIT: OP fixed it :)
I'm sorry. You are right. Does it work now?
It does 👌
They are exactly the same and I can open them both 🤷🏼
You link markdown is backward
[https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html](SignalUpdateInfo)
should be
[SignalUpdateInfo](https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html)
It might be your app / front end rendering the link text correctly, while for others it doesn't work
Correct formatting: [Text](URL)
So you want: [signalupdateinfo](https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html)
Yes it seems like Thunder for some reason does it that way
Time to leave, then.
I'd have welcomed an interface to a cloud of my choice. But yet another cloud entity hosted somewhere outside of my reach? Meh.
No i think you misunderstood. Local backups (as we have them now) will (most likely) stay.
Yaaaay, that's the last big thing I was looking for
Wow 1TB is a lot of storage. I think my backups are ~1Gb so it might be nice to have some tiers in the middle for those on a budget. At the same time, a lot of those media files are gifs and memes 😄
I think in your (and most other) case(s) the free tier would be just fine
Yea that's the hope, I might add in a donation if that's the case
I send a lot of voice and video messages to friends and family. I think it was about 10GB when I did a transfer to a new phone last year, so I'm glad there are larger storage options.
I'm hovering at ~9GB at the moment. 🥲
Good, this is a must feature for messaging app nowadays.