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by nvllsvm 1348 days ago
I too was using SMS in Signal, but only because it was slightly better that the default in GrapheneOS.

That said, I thought it still sucked. Sharing a photo from another app only showed a list of Signal chats and my contacts - with existing SMS chats being absent. There was also no way to bulk delete messages - which was particularly annoying when clearing out the countless Doordash messages I get.

Kind of glad they're altogether scrapping SMS support. Hopefully a better, dedicated app will appear to take it's place as an open source SMS app.

It also allows me to reevaluate whether I even want to consider using Signal since I only talk to two people on it anyway.

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Hah, good point about reevaluating. I too have only two people that I talk to via Signal itself. It's going to look quite empty in the app. But then that's the way it is for iOS as well. Oh well.

Same on LineageOS. The default sms app is pretty terrible.