I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

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    19 hours ago

    And it uses same tech as Signal.

    However getting friends to join Simplex is complicated by two annoyances:

    (1) It gets confused by an invite URL coming from facebook (it doesn’t know to strip the appended Facebook tracking code - as trivial as it is).

    (2) When the invite is via a QR code you must scan it with SimpleX not your native camera app. Invitees just give up.