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Tell HN: Signal Is Down Again

19 points by y3k · 13 comments · 1 min read


Can't send nor receive messages.

I'm donating to them, but I'm not sure if I'll keep using their service if the outages continue.

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curiousmindz

I would suggest being a bit patient with them. I wish they were better prepared for this surge in popularity, but now that we are here, it will probably take weeks for them to iron out all the core issues to achieve proper scalability.

If they are still having issues a month from now, then I would be concerned.

tsjq

The WhatsApp exodus is causing "hug of death" to Signal :(

y3kOP

According to their status page everything is good so far: https://status.signal.org/

  • nacs

    That's pretty much the most barebones/useless status page I've seen of any company.

    No history, no uptime percent, no mention of last downtime, etc.

jetru

Its probably all the "Good night" messages being blasted in India

LinuxBender

Another outage spike just now [1] 624 reports

[1] - https://downdetector.com/status/signal/

wishinghand

It sucks but this isn’t endemic to their product. I’ve only seen it happen in the wake of the recent Whatsapp privacy policy change.

  • y3kOP

    I know, but may be worthy to give Matrix a shot.

    • approxim8ion

      Unless you're self hosting or using an alternate server Matrix.org will run into much of the same. Delivery can already be quire delayed occasionally on the main server, and it's barely popular in terms of big picture right now.

pimlottc

I'm having problems sending messages as well.

mattbgates

Feel free to use my service.. open-source.. doesn't log or track you. https://ectochat.com

rvz

'Again'.

What's the issue this time folks?

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