[nikolajan]

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.

[zo1]

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.

[temporarely]

The timeline is possibly informative.

[aleph_minus_one]

> The timeline is possibly informative.

Where is a link to the timeline?

[temporarely]

"Then, one day in February 2020, as COVID-19 swept the globe, access to FireChat was completely cut off without explanation."

[llamaimperative]

That is… not very informative at all.

[cookiengineer]

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...