My rant on Signal

After my Matrix experiment failed in my private environment, I am now a 100% Signal user again. But that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to complain about Signal, on the contrary. There are a few things that are really wrong, which I would like to list here:

1. Disc space on iOS. The bug has been open since 2021 (!) and has not been solved satisfactorily. Signal currently occupies 6 gigabytes on my iPhone, and the trend is rising.

2. Signal can be used on a maximum of 5 devices, after that it’s over. This is certainly sufficient for the normal user, but I am working on more devices. Why such a limit at all?

3. I don’t want to receive notifications on all devices. However, the behaviour of Signal when notifications are switched off is that it constantly asks me if I want to switch on the notifications. So there is only the diversions via iOS itself.

Sometimes I wish I had Jabber back!

Rant over.