Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though

Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though

Updated Signal is experiencing a partial outage as tens of millions of netizens flood the free secure messaging service.


Texts sent via its iOS and Android apps are delayed or not getting through at all; we've had very mixed results using the platform today. On the desktop side, our vultures have struggled to pair their phones with the client. Here's what the Signal team had to say about it:


Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore service as quickly as possible.


— Signal (@signalapp) January 15, 2021

Those technical difficulties come as at least 30 million people joined the non-profit end-to-end encrypted communications platform in a matter of days this week. Its An ..

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