Signal is getting Cloud Backups
Signal is getting Cloud Backups
We are getting Cloud Backups in the future! Currently, there are two tiers planned:
The free tier offers:
- 30 days of media backup
- ??? GB of storage
The paid ($3 / mo) tier offers:
- media & text backup forever
- 1TB of storage Both tiers' features and the pricing of the paid plan are still subject to change
What do you think about this?
Sources: SignalUpdateInfo
From the website, thought this would be good to call out: "Signal Update Info is not affiliated with Signal and is not an official Signal website."
18 0 Replyoh, that's very important to know
4 0 ReplyYes you are right but the website links github commits as sources
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Can someone explain use case for me? I assume it's for folks who don't autodelete messages and want the encryption and non-spying but the same chat 'archive' of other apps like FB Messenger, WhatsApp, etc.?
8 0 ReplyPretty much yea
I'd like to have this replace messenger/WhatsApp/etc. for as many people as possible
5 0 ReplyLike if you drop your phone and it gets run over by a truck, you can buy a new phone and have all of your chat history still.
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Time to leave, then.
I'd have welcomed an interface to a cloud of my choice. But yet another cloud entity hosted somewhere outside of my reach? Meh.
5 0 ReplyNo i think you misunderstood. Local backups (as we have them now) will (most likely) stay.
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I think SyncThing is free. I'm not paying for 12 different clouds where each one I use 1% of the alotted storage.
5 0 ReplyThen just use the free tier
3 0 ReplyIt doesn't sound like any of those prices are final.
Regardless, why keep my data on some servers I don't control when there's a perfectly good local solution?
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Your link is broken, here's the working link
https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html
EDIT: OP fixed it :)
5 0 ReplyI'm sorry. You are right. Does it work now?
2 0 ReplyIt does 👌
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They are exactly the same and I can open them both 🤷🏼
1 0 ReplyYou link markdown is backward
[https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html](SignalUpdateInfo)
should be
[SignalUpdateInfo](https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html)
4 0 ReplyIt might be your app / front end rendering the link text correctly, while for others it doesn't work
Correct formatting:
[Text](URL)
So you want:
[signalupdateinfo](https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html)
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Yaaaay, that's the last big thing I was looking for
Wow 1TB is a lot of storage. I think my backups are ~1Gb so it might be nice to have some tiers in the middle for those on a budget. At the same time, a lot of those media files are gifs and memes 😄
4 0 ReplyI send a lot of voice and video messages to friends and family. I think it was about 10GB when I did a transfer to a new phone last year, so I'm glad there are larger storage options.
3 0 ReplyI think in your (and most other) case(s) the free tier would be just fine
3 0 ReplyYea that's the hope, I might add in a donation if that's the case
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I'm hovering at ~9GB at the moment. 🥲
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Good, this is a must feature for messaging app nowadays.
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