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Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption (community.signalusers.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current "Linux = Ubuntu" .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The post here is a link to an online survey being done by the Signal Community. Users need to follow the link to answer the survey if they wish (but it means creating yet another new account which I'm getting pretty tired of as I'm now passing over 900 different logins all with unique passwords etc ;-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Understandable, if you dont care just use a temporary email like altadress

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

I generally use the latest available.

I tend not to use flatpack. I lost a few nights trying to get OBS plugins to work in flat pack. It would probably be fine for something as simple and straightforward as signal. But it's more or less nothing but disadvantage to end users. That said I'm sure it's a great savings for you guys.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I just use discord or WhatsApp on chromium in my Linux install xd

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The heck are you all talking about? The post says Linux and Flatpack, while everyone somehow is discussing why signal is not on f-driod.

How the heck is this related?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Hahaha, any comment here makes no sense. This is just to help that guy have an actually somewhat useful survey, because Signal devs have very strange priorities

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