Tell HN: iOS Signal eats your disk space

• Signal-iOS

  130 10,442 10.0 Swift

  A private messenger for iOS.

  

1. It's not stolen. It's used. It may not be used efficiently (or, if you're correct, used sensibly at all) but it's not stolen.

2. If deleted data not being purged from your iOS device is a "significant security flaw" then you shouldn't be using a device from Apple or Google; your threat model is way beyond the two big players.

3. Hyperbolic comments[1] don't help issues being re-opened. Helpful comments, preferably with steps to reproduce, and a polite note that the issue is still current, will get the issue re-opened in my experience. Getting on your high horse and making silly claims would get you put to the bottom of the pile if it were my job.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4916#issuecom...

• TextSecure

  985 24,864 9.9 Java

  A private messenger for Android.

  

It's not a hyperbolic comment. The Signal stale bot is bad and frustrates anybody contributing.

* I've reported NullPointerExceptions with stack traces, stale bot comes to close.

* I've reported Signal fatally corrupting its DB and losing all its data [1], stale bot comes to close.

Few things are more frustrating than investing your free time, and then finding an automated system pitted against you.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26841134, https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11160#iss...

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