[JasonFruit]

I also deplore this.

I hope it's communicated well to users who aren't readers of Signal's blog. I have relatives who use Signal, and they rely on its fallback-to-SMS feature, possibly without fully understanding it. I'll make sure they understand and are aware of this change, but others may be in the same position.

[xcdzvyn]

I fear Signal will follow their recent trend of ignoring unanimous user-base complaints a la Mobilecoin, fdroid, and third-party clients.

[autoexec]

That ship sailed a long time ago. Signal's userbase overwhelmingly objected to having their sensitive information permanently stored in the cloud too, but signal ignored them.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-...

Even when security concerns were brought up:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

[fyvhbhn]

... phone number use, lack of interoperability, keeping server source closed when it fits