I agree that it helped with adoption. In a way I wish they still had it so I could get my text messaging family to use a messaging app instead.
The flip side was, if somebody tried signal and didn’t like it and uninstalled it, then any SMS message to them from signal went to their signal account that they no longer had installed so they didn’t get it. You had no way of knowing so it really sucked.
I’m certain the engineering team considered it, but I wonder why they didn’t pursue having accounts that haven’t signed in for a while issue a notice to the sender, or even have the account deactivate itself.
Make an opt-out default, you could disable that behaviour if your threat model needed to account for that 🤷
I agree that it helped with adoption. In a way I wish they still had it so I could get my text messaging family to use a messaging app instead.
The flip side was, if somebody tried signal and didn’t like it and uninstalled it, then any SMS message to them from signal went to their signal account that they no longer had installed so they didn’t get it. You had no way of knowing so it really sucked.
Ah yeah, I’d forgotten about that.
I’m certain the engineering team considered it, but I wonder why they didn’t pursue having accounts that haven’t signed in for a while issue a notice to the sender, or even have the account deactivate itself.
Make an opt-out default, you could disable that behaviour if your threat model needed to account for that 🤷