This has been rehashed over and over and over again hundreds of times, for fuck's sake, let it sms die already.
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You do realize that you just replying to a post that said "this decision to remove SMS support caused all my family members to stop using Signal" with their blog post saying "they are going to remove SMS support" which caused my family members to stop using Signal.
You're really not doing a very good job at defending their decision.
The point is their decision is justified, they had good reasons for doing so. A minor inconvenience to some, sure, but it's for the greater good.
So there's one extra app on your phone. Big deal, we all make a sacrifice in one form or another, quit whining.
You obviously don't understand the impact of their decision. It made people less secure. Period.
You can blame me, even though I still have Signal installed and use it over SMS 100% of the time. So you're pretty misguided there.
You can blame less technical people, but that just makes you an elitest asshole. It doesn't make those people's communications any more secure.
Signal could have done nothing at all and people would still be more secure than they are today. That's not whining, that's justba fact.