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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Your link is broken, here’s the working link

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

EDIT: OP fixed it :)

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

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

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It does 👌

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Yaaaay, that’s the last big thing I was looking for

Wow 1TB is a lot of storage. I think my backups are ~1Gb so it might be nice to have some tiers in the middle for those on a budget. At the same time, a lot of those media files are gifs and memes 😄

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I think in your (and most other) case(s) the free tier would be just fine

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Yea that’s the hope, I might add in a donation if that’s the case

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I send a lot of voice and video messages to friends and family. I think it was about 10GB when I did a transfer to a new phone last year, so I’m glad there are larger storage options.

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I’m hovering at ~9GB at the moment. 🥲

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

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The Signal messenger and protocol.

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