Signal-Server Alternatives

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• Signal starts catching up to WhatsApp by adding custom wallpapers and animated stickers
  reddit.com/r/Android | 2021-01-22

  Yep. AGPL v3 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

• Anyone self hosted Signal?
  reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2021-01-22

  I have not but I'd be curious if anyone has successfully done so. While OWS does publish the server source code, they provide zero documentation on how to get the server up and running. If anyone has done it I would be curious as to how complicated the setup process is.

• Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-22

  The source to their server seems open source licensed and available: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

  Wikipedia also says their server is open source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)

• The Secure Messaging App Conundrum: Signal vs. Telegram (A Comparisson for Non [pdf]
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-22

  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

  Plenty of threads about people asking about updates or not being able to run it

• Is Signal as easy to use as WhatsApp? (a ~40 hour analysis)
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-19

  I'm a big fan of Signal and have been encouraging friends and family to use it.

  That said, I (like others) am a bit concerned about the lack of updates to Signal-Server (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commits/master). Commits seemed to suddenly stop April last year, and I'd be very surprised if the actual Signal Server that's running in production hasn't been updated over such a long period. Would be very happy to be proven wrong here, or to be pointed in the direction of anything that might explain the lack of activity.

• Signal: New Signal groups use Google servers Some readers have pointed out to me that Signal appears to be using the Google Data Center to create / manage new Signal groups. The domain storage.signal.org resolves to the IP addresses:
  reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO | 2021-01-18

  Take a look for yourself https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

• We can do better than Signal
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-17

  Can anyone closer to development of Signal (or who works on it) comment on why the server code was last updated in April (7 months ago https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server)?

  Has _all_ development been client side?

  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-17

  Can you name anything that should have been fixed in Signal Server before April? Probably not, but this doesn't look very good https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/graphs/code-frequ...

  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-17

  Huh? I googled "signal server" and got https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-17

  On the public repo, there have been no changes since April 2020

  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

  If you go here https://github.com/signalapp you can see there were changes 8 hours ago.

  So yes no public changes have been pushed, but changes are happening. It is fair to ask what changes are being pushed given their push for privacy.

  How much do you want to trust here?

  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-17

  the last PR was 9 hours ago https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/pulls

  while the main page says update was 8. Thats what threw me off

  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-17

  What's untrue about that? There haven't been any commits to Signal-Server for almost a year.

  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

• [Q] Why doesn't Telegram make the Secrets Chats option more obvious to the new user for E2EE, and why are they unavailable in the web and desktop apps?
  reddit.com/r/Telegram | 2021-01-17

  Have a look for yourself: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server. We also know the production Signal server is running a later closed-source version of the code since a few features are missing from the released codebase.

• Signal on Twitter: "Signal is back! Like an underdog going through a training montage, we’ve learned a lot since yesterday — and we did it together. Thanks to the millions of new Signal users around the world for your patience. Your capacity for understanding inspired us while we expanded capacity."
  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-01-17

  Just a small note - signal server is open source: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

• Signal is back!
  reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO | 2021-01-16

  Looking forward to a write up. Not sure what was being worked on but https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server has no recently merged PRs.