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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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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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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Good, this is a must feature for messaging app nowadays.

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

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oh, that’s very important to know

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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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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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Pretty much yea

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

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The Signal messenger and protocol.

!signal@lemmy.ml

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