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by nikolajan 778 days ago
I think the obvious question is: can you shed any light or provide context on why the service was shut down?

And if not, it seems unrealistic to expect people to adopt / trust your alternative.

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I think it's oddly telling or suspicious at the very-least that this dev isn't giving you a straight answer to your question.
The timeline is possibly informative.
> The timeline is possibly informative.

Where is a link to the timeline?

"Then, one day in February 2020, as COVID-19 swept the globe, access to FireChat was completely cut off without explanation."
That is… not very informative at all.
Hong Kong now being part of China, and not an independent regime anymore?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9...