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

  • xela@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    10 months ago

    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.”

  • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
    8·
    10 months ago

    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.?

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Pretty much yea

      I’d like to have this replace messenger/WhatsApp/etc. for as many people as possible

    • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Like 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.

  • NotJustForMe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • mintdaniel42OPEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      No i think you misunderstood. Local backups (as we have them now) will (most likely) stay.

    • mintdaniel42OPEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      They are exactly the same and I can open them both 🤷🏼

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        You link markdown is backward

        [https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html](SignalUpdateInfo)

        should be

        [SignalUpdateInfo](https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html)
      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        It 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)

        • mintdaniel42OPEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Yes it seems like Thunder for some reason does it that way

        • mintdaniel42OPEnglish
          41·
          10 months ago

          First of all: there will definitely be a free tier. The only thing not final is storage and media backup.

          Second: local backup will most likely still be an option.

          Why do people always hate on new features? Just don’t use them if you don’t want to

            • mintdaniel42OPEnglish
              3·
              10 months ago

              My bad… It wasn’t supposed to sound that aggressive.

              And to be honest: there is no confirmation for a free tier but I strongly believe (and hope) so because most people nowadays assume everything to be free and if they see Signal not having a free backup plan everyone would go

              aAhHhHHHhH they are so greedy i thought they are a non-profit.

              (I mean people who don’t care about privacy and only use signal because their privay-aware friends told them to)

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    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 😄

    • Cargon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I 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.

    • mintdaniel42OPEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I think in your (and most other) case(s) the free tier would be just fine

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Yea that’s the hope, I might add in a donation if that’s the case