aquamarine
people keep saying that signal relies on aws but for me the service was up the entire day. not sure what people are talking about
truthfully i think people are just trying to find reasons to hate signal
Oct 21 at 1:23amWeb
Show threadAlexia Oct 21
@aqua signal did actually have issues though, you might've just slept through it like I did
Show threadaquamarineOct 21
@alexia huh? i texted some of my friends during school, around 2pm eastern / 6pm utc. it seemed up
Show threadAlexia Oct 21
@aqua consult the chart: downdetector.com/status/signal/
Signal app down? Current outages and problems. |

Real-time outages and problems for the Signal app. Can't send messages? No server connection? Here you see what is going on.

downdetector.com
Show threadnixwizOct 21
@[email protected] for me it did go down at the same time as the aws outages, maybe only some areas went down?
Show threadLady StrawberriesOct 21
@nixwiz @aqua definitely down for me too. Couldn’t send or receive anything for a couple hours and even once it came back up it was very slow
Show threadshroomie/joan (of the agaric system)Oct 21
@aqua i hate signal because i don’t have a phone number
Show threadjaezuOct 21
@aqua well it was down for me, and i live in germany
Show threadfopsOct 21
@aqua yeah ive had a total of zero things refusing to work including signal but i may have just slept through it or sth lmao