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✗ Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore service as quickly as possible.
Status page now.
Seems like everything is back to normal, at least from what I can tell on my end and a lot of other users’ reports.
Facebook engineers got mad they went down and decided to ddos the internet so they wouldn't look bad.
I was having A LOT of issues with it earlier this evening but it seems to be back to normal now
They still have issues registering new users. There's a recaptcha loop problem.
Probably due to users trying to grab their username.
I don't know... Usernames are paired with numbers, so they shouldn't be all that exclusive and hence it shouldn't trigger an avalanche of people rushing to get the username they desire.
I thought the goal of the username was to also have the ability to use Signal without any phone number at all
Nope, you still need a phone number. You just don't need to give the phone number out to contacts you want to talk with and can instead use the username.
Ah yes, I see that now by ready the blog post more carefully.
They are paired and, I think, exclusive (albeit with random numbers attached at the end so maybe meh).
Who knows... session seems interesting.
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2024
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