I joined a Signal group

[dreamshark]

 My loosely organized neighborhood block club set up a Signal group, so I joined it. It took me a while to even figure out how to do that, as the invitation was sent by email and I read email on my computer, not my phone. Let's just say that it required multiple (non-obvious) steps. But I don't understand how to use it. I saw one announcement of some kind come through on my phone, but I didn't read it carefully and now it has apparently disappeared forever. WTF? 

I find so many supposedly intuitive user interfaces to be incomprehensible. 

On the plus side, Richard and I (especially Richard) were tickled to see that the neighbor had named the group "Halloween Hallway".  

Comments

[guppiecat]

Signal is designed for security, which means that disappearing messages is a core feature of the product - and one that matters a LOT for this sort of thing. You don't want someone to have their phone forcibly unlocked by ICE and find out about you from the chat.

Yes, there are non-obvious elements of Signal, but some of them are there for legitimate security-related reasons.

[spiderplanet]

Yikes! If I had known, I would have helped you with this today. Signal is great, I like it more than the default texter, it does SO MUCH BETTER with group texts and photos once you get to know it.

If you haven't yet figured it out by the next time I see you, let me know.