Signal: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers
Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
coderabbit.ai
featured
Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers
Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.
www.nutrient.io
featured
  1. TextSecure

    A private messenger for Android.

    https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7409

    > We've discussed at length why this is not possible, but if you have more thoughts then please visit the forums. Please try not to open duplicate issues in the future, even if you feel like something is important.

    I wonder why this is "not possible"

  2. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

    CodeRabbit logo
  3. Signal-Server

    Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS

    > They could at least BSL the server code and allow others to verify the server code and host but not compete.

    This is exactly what they do (except they use AGPL): https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

  4. mollyim-android

    Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.

    You may be able to install something like https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android in the EU ... eventually.

  5. session-android

    A private messenger for Android.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts

  • Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2025
  • A generalist Python node editor

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2025
  • Make AI Models Your Perfect Roommate! (ServBay+Ollama+ChatBox)

    1 project | dev.to | 1 Mar 2025
  • The Ultimate Guide to Local DeepSeek Deployment

    1 project | dev.to | 27 Feb 2025
  • Rely less on Third-Party Services

    3 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2025

Did you know that Java is
the 8th most popular programming language
based on number of references?