Is Signal Down?

Official confirmation:

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350118809860886528

EDIT: Interesting geographic usage data in the tweet replies. Most replies by far coming from Indian Signal users, many comparing Signal's reliability to WhatsApp. Also strong showing in the comments from Africa (esp. Nigeria) and the Middle East. I wonder how many joined Signal just recently in response to Facebook's changes to WhatsApp [0].

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-pr...

They tweeted that they went from 10M+ to 50M+ installs on Google Play recently, so that’s probably what’s happening:

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1349577579091566592?s=2...

Recently joined user of Signal with same problem. Left WhatsApp due to increasing Facebookification...

Just donated to the Signal non-profit to help them out buying better infrastructure: https://signal.org/donate/

DNS is resolving to 127.0.0.1

  wget https://textsecure-service.whispersystems.org/v1/config
  --2021-01-15 11:55:13--  https://textsecure-service.whispersystems.org/v1/config
  Resolving textsecure-service.whispersystems.org (textsecure-service.whispersystems.org)... 127.0.0.1
  Connecting to textsecure-service.whispersystems.org (textsecure-service.whispersystems.org)|127.0.0.1|:443... failed: Connection refused.

Edit: Looking at the logs, it went down before the DNS started resolving to loopback. This may be part of a mitigation.

Just donated some money to Signal. My only issues with the app has been minor usability ones but they'll fix those.

Signal the organization, the app, etc are all worthy of support and I for one thank Facebook for pushing millions of users into Signal.

Donated. Perhaps that helps a tiny bit. https://signal.org/donate/

Use Matrix with Element! https://element.io/

The "downage" is intermittent; sending messages for me (middle of the US on Google Fiber) alternates between taking forever to send and straight-up failing. Desktop app keeps showing the yellow "Disconnected" banner. At first I thought Google Fiber was down again (it's snowing right now...) but checking #Signal on Twitter and DownDetector.com clued me in pretty quick that this was a Signal issue. I was wondering if a massive influx of users might lead to growth pains.

I'm not sure if this is because of all the new users, so maybe someone that has been using Signal for a while longer can pitch in: Is the Desktop experience really as bad as it has been over the past few days?

It took 4 minutes for me this morning to replay a chat of maybe 200 messages, and that's with one person. I can't even imagine how bad it must be with multiple big groups. Sending takes ages, often being out of sync with the phone app, and I get notifications for messages I replied to half an hour ago on my Desktop when unlocking my phone.

Not sure if I'd wanna stay on Signal at the moment if it stays like this, maybe Matrix is really the better choice - at least Element on the web is by far superior to signal.

Time for Matrix to brag about multiple home servers!

I can't say I'm surprised.... anyone on Signal (who gave the app access to their contacts) has seen a MASSIVE influx of new uers, and it's not like Signal is running in AWS and can just scale up more EC2 instances. This may be an issue for the next month or more as hundreds -- if not thousands -- of new servers can be added to the back end.

Recently saw an influx of messages from signal: "* is now on Signal!"

And yes, it's down here in Toronto-Hamilton metro, Canada as well.

https://status.signal.org says "Up and running"

Edit: Downdetector says its down https://downdetector.com/status/signal/, Twitter also has issues.

It's sad to happen now, but I'm so glad to see the sudden interest for Signal :)

Good luck to the engineers at Signal! <3

It has been down for roughly 90 minutes at my end. Previous thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25792136

Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25791730

Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25792396

I don't have (and don't want) a cellphone. Is there a way for me to use signal? Maybe something that relays SMS?

Family and friends have starting using it as the main messaging app the past 3 months. Definitely growing.

Sods law, been setting up the matrix bridge, and wondered why I couldn't get anything to authenticate!

They went from 10 million users to 50 million users virtually overnight.

I think these kind of issues are understandable.

Is there a way to be less centralised? So that it can't go down because a central server does?

Signal is awesome. Hoping the $5 donation I made today makes this 503 error go away

East Coast US and I'm experiencing 502 Bad Gateway errors.

Italy: signal is down right now @ 2021-01-15T16:25:49.988Z

Down for friends and I in the UK.

well it was fun while it lasted