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Signal is down since ~1 hour

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Came here to post https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7460

https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/824cci/signal_down/

You were faster than me. This is a real bummer for me since I use Signal daily. First thought was that my signal installation was broken (since I had some problems with it yesterday).

The main problem for me is the lack of transparency, and communication. Shit happens, but you shouldn’t let your users alone in the dark.

Couldn't agree more. This is why I would like a federated service. Right now I'm testing riot as well, but it was such a hassle to get people to use signal that I didn't even want to start to try to persuade people to try it with me. It's really annoying that I still use more than one messenger (xmpp, riot, signal, irc), but at least I can still communicate with some of my peers.

Back to the signal topic my first thought was that they just didn't have time to react yet since it's before 4am in the US, but they changed the DNS entry of the signal gateway so I guess it's maybe a DDOS? First people are asking for a service page https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7461

Anyway it's up again. Hopefully there will be a writeup

I just got a couple of messages through; not sure if it's back or if it's an intermittent/congestion problem.

btw Telegram is down also in many regions

EDIT: there is speculation it's Chinese DDoS since today is day 1 of the first session of China's 13th National People's Congress? The very Congress meeting that is going to remove Xi's 2 term limit (dictator for life).

Yup was speculated in the github issue as well. Wouldn't jump to conclusions yet thought.

yes, same in EU

back to WhatsApp and gotta try open source Wire which doesn't require phone, though i will still keep Signal as SMS client

Wire is already open sourced https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148596 and server https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302592 And article links https://medium.com/@wireapp/wire-server-code-now-100-open-so... Here is the repo https://github.com/wireapp

tried, they are kinda shady hiding email registration only for desktop and not allowing on mobile

in the end i have found there zero contacts although i know at least one of my contacts use it, tried also Telegram, found many of my Signal/WhatsApp contacts are there as well and same with Allo, tried also Skype lite bit horrible experience and again same contacts as my other combo minus 1-2, so all in all seem pointless to leave from WhatsApp and Signal could be replaced by regular SMS app

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