SMS support got more people to use it, its easy to convince friends/family to swap if they can do all their regular texting in there. I understand why they removed it, but I think they did it way too early, they still needed a larger userbase.
@TheEntity@bbbhltz@Lionir To have all communications in a single place/app, and be able to back up / restore in a single place, instead of messing with multiple applications.
If you’re trying to move from using only one messaging platform (SMS) to two (SMS+Signal), then I understand the friction. If you’re like me and you have five other messaging platforms anyway, then a sixth makes no difference. This has never bothered me, but it’s one of the reasons I have not moved my mother onto Signal — it’s added complexity that she’s not really going to understand.
That said, I never enabled SMS in the Signal app and I wouldn’t even if it came back. RCS is available now, and until Android provides third-party app developers the ability to make RCS clients, it’s a dead end.
Because if the username is a phone number, it is just very convenient. If someone I know switches then I keep the entire conversation with them and just continue. If I want to encourage someone I know, I can just tell them about the features they’ll get with Signal rather than trying to sell them a platform which kind of sucks on desktop.
Why use Signal for SMS if they are unencrypted either way?
SMS support got more people to use it, its easy to convince friends/family to swap if they can do all their regular texting in there. I understand why they removed it, but I think they did it way too early, they still needed a larger userbase.
@TheEntity @bbbhltz @Lionir To have all communications in a single place/app, and be able to back up / restore in a single place, instead of messing with multiple applications.
If you’re trying to move from using only one messaging platform (SMS) to two (SMS+Signal), then I understand the friction. If you’re like me and you have five other messaging platforms anyway, then a sixth makes no difference. This has never bothered me, but it’s one of the reasons I have not moved my mother onto Signal — it’s added complexity that she’s not really going to understand.
That said, I never enabled SMS in the Signal app and I wouldn’t even if it came back. RCS is available now, and until Android provides third-party app developers the ability to make RCS clients, it’s a dead end.
Because if the username is a phone number, it is just very convenient. If someone I know switches then I keep the entire conversation with them and just continue. If I want to encourage someone I know, I can just tell them about the features they’ll get with Signal rather than trying to sell them a platform which kind of sucks on desktop.