[AmericanChopper]

Yeah that’s true. They should allow encrypted backups to be stored in iCloud backups (they intentionally exclude this for some reason). But even then, this is a feature that will only ever be used by highly motivated individuals. The Android backups are useless if you lose your 30 digit secret. I agree their position on this is shit, but I can’t imagine it’s a barrier to mainstream adoption.

[kristofferR]

It is a massive barrier, people won't switch to secure messaging if it's unusable.

[AmericanChopper]

As a messaging service, it’s certainly not ‘unusable’. You’re claiming that the ability to permanently archive message history is an absolute minimum requirement for consumers (and that a service that does not offer this is ‘unusable’). I’m going to put a big citation needed on that.