But besides this, there is really a strong need for a web client, just like Telegram or WhatsApp. If only the protocol can be extended in such a way that it allows for integrating into a web app, that would be incredibly great.
Signal and other messaging apps offer a 'search' bar across all sessions & history, so I doubt I'm the only one.
It's hard for me to imagine being so present-focused such a history wouldn't be personally useful.
Or, so worried about "someone [using] it against [me] in court" that I'd need more than the occasional auto-expiration, and specifically my messenger "protecting" me with intermittently-enforced loss-of-histories (on just theft/loss/hard-failure of primary device).
Your portrayal of my comment is not even close.
Anecdotes that sometimes those problems don't occur are nearly worthless. Of course that's true - the original anecdotal complaint already implicitly relies on, & grants, the idea that there's some default, "hoped for" ideal from which their experience has fallen short.
To chime in, "never had your problems" thus adds no info. Yes, people lucky enough not to hit those Signal limits that cause others to lose data exist, of course. But how does that testimony help those with problems? Should their frustration be considered less important or credible, because of your luck?
The as-if portrayal is one way your anecdote will be perceived, even if that wasn't your intent.
I had no issues at all since it's called Signal. I have no idea what people do with it to cause problems at all.
It would still be interesting to find out.
I've been on Android only btw.
The Android app is stable enough, but the UX of having to look at the phone while typing a reply on a normal keyboard is annoying. This is why I prefer Telegram every time.
I'm not sure what's going on for you, but it seems really abnormal.
There is now at least a reminder on the phone app that will prompt you a few days before one of your desktop apps is about to get unlinked.