Post AR6wC4XiY6KKlWibJI by hobs@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #AR6vlhV1bLgVlhsrcO by pganssle@qoto.org
       2022-12-29T20:56:07Z
       
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       OK, I upgraded to the latest Signal and it still works as an SMS client.Kind of a twist of the knife that they are also prominently pushing “stories” in this update, which…. does not seem like it was any sort of user-requested feature.
       
 (DIR) Post #AR6vlhvxzBEf7GUNc0 by lucifargundam@qoto.org
       2022-12-29T21:05:02Z
       
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       @pganssle I'd rather keep sms than any 'features' developed.There's an old passage somewhere that says something along the lines of 'The most efficient tools do only one thing- and one thing very well.'I'm not using signal to post facebook status or to submit git patches via mms. All I want is simple, safe, secure communication. Emojis can be added after.
       
 (DIR) Post #AR6wC4XiY6KKlWibJI by hobs@mstdn.social
       2022-12-29T21:05:12Z
       
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       @pganssle sms still disabled for me on 6.2.4 (latest on Android)
       
 (DIR) Post #AR6wC552YCywQsJDFY by lucifargundam@qoto.org
       2022-12-29T21:09:49Z
       
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       @hobs @pganssle On a side note, once(if at all) getting sms to work- test out its integrity/consistency by trying to get SMS via many varying scenarios (eg. Generated sent via webserver, mobile to mobile, etc.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AR6wcnfTOi5iFQ5gwq by pganssle@qoto.org
       2022-12-29T21:14:39Z
       
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       @lucifargundam Yeah. I understand where they are coming from — ironically, I'm complaining about this in between drafts of a blog post about how sometimes you should deliberately choose to *not* implement features that people want if a sufficiently high percentage of people will use those features wrong. That's basically the whole justification for removing SMS, so you'd think I'd be in support of it, except:1. I think SMS support was actually a core feature of Signal and they should probably lean in to UX design to minimize any potential harm rather than give up on it2. In the same blog post I suggest that when you have a feature that some people might use correctly but a larger fraction of people might use incorrectly, you should probably still include the feature, but just make it *more difficult*. In this case adding a setting like, "Enable SMS even though it's insecure" would really help.