signalapp/Signal-Desktop on Hacker News

…https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/releases https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/releases https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases I would suggest looking at the actual commits and not just the release notes.…

comment by godelski · 2025-11-29 · in Molly: An Improved Signal App

…that you compile yourself. edit: This is apparently currently not working for Apple and MS builds. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/main/reprod...

comment by bink · 2025-11-10 · in Time to start de-Appling

…Mac OS: - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop Additionally, most of the Signal server's source code (nix the anti-spam components) is open…

comment by anonym29 · 2025-09-03 · in Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

…apps. Also, concerning Signal: https://forums.puri.sm/t/building-and-running-signal-desktop... https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3410 Concerning Whatsapp: https://forums.puri.sm/t/how-to-install-whatsapp-and-discord...

comment by fsflover · 2025-08-29 · in PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

…course iOS apps and normal macOS apps are not allowed to self-modify, as it breaks their signature. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4578 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos/issues/122

comment by sneak · 2025-08-27 · in Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published

…probably never provide a proper web client instead of that suboptimal Electron desktop thing. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4466

comment by bertman · 2025-06-21 · in Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp

No, there is (or was) just Google Captcha. Here is issue on Github about it. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/6002

comment by reconnecting · 2025-06-21 · in Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp

…at message encryption, but let's not forget that it handles user privacy unacceptably poorly. [0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/6002 [1] https://signal.org/legal/

comment by reconnecting · 2025-06-21 · in Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp

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Signal-desktop upgrade bricks chat history

story by mrek0 · 2024-09-27 · 0 comments

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Signal-desktop: ringing despite contact being muted #6847

story by signalthrowaway · 2024-05-15 · 1 comment

…Windows and macOS, so it is much needed. There's an issue open to provide a flatpak for the app. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1639

comment by ementally · 2024-05-13 · in Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

…production. https://no-sandbox.io/ You can have a look where they specifically chose to force it https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/1ca0d8210...

comment by ementally · 2024-05-13 · in Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

Here u go https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop

comment by warwren · 2024-02-20 · in Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

…mishandled. I'm not moving off of that position. 1: https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/ 2: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1862 3: https://community.signalusers.org/t/add-gif-search-giphy-to-... 4:…

comment by astrostl · 2023-11-17 · in Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

…for many years. Dropped it over what I consider to be their serial mishandling of open source. See https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/6186 for the latest chapter in the, "we won't implement desktop GIPHY that we announced in…

comment by astrostl · 2023-11-16 · in Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

…limit on Desktop clients. If they didn't they'd potentially have to hold onto messages forever. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4730 https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-unlink-devices-afte...

comment by rbut · 2023-11-16 · in Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

…is running without sandbox on Linux [1][2]. [0] https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39824 [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5195 [2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/4381

comment by jiripospisil · 2023-09-12 · in Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP

…issues and report them to authors: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/issues/... https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4121 Dual stack setups tend to hide IPv6 implementation issues and may create illusion…

comment by pavel_odintsov · 2023-05-01 · in Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4 only apps on Linux

Can you point me at the part of this document where 3rd parties are allowed to use your trademark? https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/main/LICENS... I think what Signal is objecting to is that the snap looked like it was…

comment by spullara · 2022-11-08 · in Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

Signal doesn't appear to have actually added those restrictions to the license though. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/main/LICENS...

comment by monocasa · 2022-11-03 · in Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

Just read this since you aren't familiar with the context: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1758

comment by yuuu · 2022-11-03 · in Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

…is also another reason not to use Snap. This is a multi-level failure. 1. Signal-Desktop is AGPLv3: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop 2. The snap package metadata is AGPLv3: https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop So, this…

comment by kevin_b_er · 2022-11-03 · in Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

It is not official. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1639 https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-desktop-for-non-a...

comment by _-david-_ · 2022-11-03 · in Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

…Flatpak would benefit a lot of people now because of Steam Deck-induced Flatpak popularity [2]. 1. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1639 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/tiidh8/comment/i1em...

comment by ifeeltriedboss · 2022-11-03 · in Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

They have mentioned a few times that it is to reduce spam. See: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2383#issu... and in this paywalled article https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/signal-meredith-whitt... where they…

comment by ysnp · 2022-10-07 · in Signal is secure, as proven by hackers

…for calls: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060492-Vo... It's also open source: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop Jitsu Meet ( https://meet.jit.si/ with reviews elsewhere in this thread) is also great and has a…

comment by minhmeoke · 2022-08-13 · in Zoom Alternatives for Longer Meetings?

The beta version of the client received M1 support last month: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4461#issu... It opens way, way faster than the Intel version.

comment by celsoazevedo · 2022-01-10 · in New Year, New CEO

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Signal Desktop is now optimized for Apple's M1 chip

story by tosh · 2022-01-07 · 0 comments

…Edit: It was announced in an earlier beta[0] but did it actually make it through to stable? [0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v5....

comment by spurgu · 2022-01-04 · in Signal now with M1 support (stable release)

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Signal now with M1 support (stable release)

story by toxypol · 2022-01-04 · 1 comment

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Signal Desktop beta with native M1 support

story by bonyt · 2021-12-22 · 1 comment

…go the extra mile of designing the build/CI system to incorporate this as an official release. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5612

comment by vinay427 · 2021-12-01 · in Become a Signal Sustainer

Sorry, yes. There's multiple sources, but a lot of it collected here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4461 They keep shutting down tickets about it, refuse to review a PR that implemented it for them, and won't even tick…

comment by drcongo · 2021-12-01 · in Become a Signal Sustainer

…the link as well. This is basically a meta-bug complaining about why the original bug was closed: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4461 But as the other comments here point out, it's a perfectly reasonable response from…

comment by samspenc · 2021-11-25 · in Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon

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Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon

story by mthld · 2021-11-25 · 17 comments

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Signal devs don't intend to support Apple M1

story by toxypol · 2021-11-10 · 21 comments

…is a blank check. My PRs against autoupdates have run in to similar developer resistance. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4578 https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/552

comment by sneak · 2021-07-06 · in Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable

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Signal Desktop: Cat broke UI by holding down space

story by sudenmorsian · 2021-05-24 · 0 comments

…was unauthorized on the server side? I guess we'll never know, hopefully it wasn't even stored. 1. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5202

comment by INTPenis · 2021-04-28 · in Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California

…iOS), so they have to maintain BC with out of date versions for at least a few weeks/months. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4578

comment by sneak · 2021-04-26 · in Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal

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Signal Desktop is unable to send messages

story by hiq · 2021-04-21 · 2 comments

Response from Signal Desktop developer on an insufficient Signal PR I posted a while ago: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/4381

comment by zx2c4 · 2021-04-18 · in No Sandbox – Applications That Run Chromium Without the Sandbox

It's not, it's an Electron-based app (not bad by default). Even says so on their Github page: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop Unless you're using a non-official version?

comment by mikhailt · 2021-04-17 · in Corrupt Signal DB issue crashing App and losing data

You can indeed turn them off, at least on mobile devices. Desktop apps are much worse in this regard. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4578 https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/552

comment by sneak · 2021-03-15 · in The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4513#issu... Is there a citation for this claim? I tried searching on Twitter for tweets regarding Signal errors, and I didn't see anything except for retweets of the link to this HN post.…

comment by prophesi · 2021-02-28 · in Signal Desktop is corrupting its database

…may differ here. Their sticker packs feature added at least 50 MB (mostly via node_modules): https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3919 > Can't say I'd be happy if it started adding a bunch of features I didn't ask for. What…

comment by primeos · 2021-02-28 · in Signal Desktop is corrupting its database

…so I gave up. Multiple backups of the whole ~/.config/Signal directory didn't help either.) (See: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4513#issu... )

comment by primeos · 2021-02-28 · in Signal Desktop is corrupting its database

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Signal Desktop is corrupting its database

story by miduil · 2021-02-28 · 180 comments

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Some signs rendered outside message content area

story by hiq · 2021-02-15 · 0 comments

No, you can't verify the checksum; it downloads and runs new code without asking. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4578

comment by sneak · 2021-01-15 · in Signal is having technical difficulties