In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
While this is good since it provides some revenue beyond donations and also simplifies data backups, I think it’s kind of ridiculous that they still have not implemented a way to restore backups cross-platform (it’s just left as something they plan to do in the future). Like, is it really that hard to just export and import a file in a standard format?
This will fix that too! TheY mentioned it somewhere where
https://lemmy.ml/comment/20964296
In the post, they say it’s something they plan to do in the future building atop the changes they’ve made, so it’s not fixed yet.
One of the signal Devs has said they’ve already tested restoring cross platform with this new format
I had to track down the comment since no one linked it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=45171576
Hopefully they finish stabilizing cross-platform backups through the new service and port local backups to the new format in a reasonable timeframe, although I’m not gonna hold my breath. I still think it’s completely ridiculous that this (really basic tbh) feature took so long.