We are getting Cloud Backups in the future! Currently, there are two tiers planned:

The free tier offers:

  • 30 days of media backup
  • ??? GB of storage

The paid ($3 / mo) tier offers:

  • media & text backup forever
  • 1TB of storage Both tiers’ features and the pricing of the paid plan are still subject to change

What do you think about this?

Sources: SignalUpdateInfo

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From the website, thought this would be good to call out: “Signal Update Info is not affiliated with Signal and is not an official Signal website.”

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oh, that’s very important to know

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Yes you are right but the website links github commits as sources

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Can someone explain use case for me? I assume it’s for folks who don’t autodelete messages and want the encryption and non-spying but the same chat ‘archive’ of other apps like FB Messenger, WhatsApp, etc.?

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Pretty much yea

I’d like to have this replace messenger/WhatsApp/etc. for as many people as possible

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Like if you drop your phone and it gets run over by a truck, you can buy a new phone and have all of your chat history still.

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Time to leave, then.

I’d have welcomed an interface to a cloud of my choice. But yet another cloud entity hosted somewhere outside of my reach? Meh.

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No i think you misunderstood. Local backups (as we have them now) will (most likely) stay.

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Your link is broken, here’s the working link

https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html

EDIT: OP fixed it :)

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I’m sorry. You are right. Does it work now?

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It does 👌

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They are exactly the same and I can open them both 🤷🏼

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You link markdown is backward

[https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html](SignalUpdateInfo)

should be

[SignalUpdateInfo](https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html)
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It might be your app / front end rendering the link text correctly, while for others it doesn’t work

Correct formatting: [Text](URL)

So you want: [signalupdateinfo](https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html)

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Yes it seems like Thunder for some reason does it that way

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Then just use the free tier

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First of all: there will definitely be a free tier. The only thing not final is storage and media backup.

Second: local backup will most likely still be an option.

Why do people always hate on new features? Just don’t use them if you don’t want to

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The Signal messenger and protocol.

!signal@lemmy.ml

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