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by local_dev 1998 days ago
Does signal still have a problem of dropping messages? I tried to use it as a replacement for Android Messages a while ago but roughly 10-25% of all messages were not received any given day.
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I experience this quite a lot, at least in group chats (I mainly use Signal for group chats). Some of the participants receive my message, others not. When I check the message details it says "message not sent" or "not delivered" (not sure which one) for some group members while it does not display any errors other members. As far as i noticed, no error means the message was delivered but even when it showed an error it could be that people actually got my message.

This error seems to happen a lot more often, when i send messages via Signal Desktop.

Not to my knowledge... I use Signal every day and haven't noticed any message loss lately.
Thanks! I'll have to try it out again after the holiday madness calms down.
Yes, it does. At least for me.