Signal is down, unable to cope with influx of new users

Sign, the messaging app which as steadily been gaining new customers, seems to be down. Many customers are unable to ship messages to their contacts.

“Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore services as quickly as possible,” stated a purple banner on high of the app as Indian Categorical tried to ship out just a few messages. It stays to be seen how lengthy Sign takes to rectify the difficulty. We'll replace this text as quickly as companies resume on the app.

Sign is experiencing technical difficulties. We're working onerous to revive service as shortly as doable.

— Sign (@signalapp) January 15, 2021

Sign, a privacy-focused immediate messaging app, not too long ago rose to fast reputation as hundreds of WhatsApp customers migrated to the app. Sign’s concentrate on privateness and encryption continues to draw a variety of customers to the platform, making it essentially the most downloaded free app in lots of areas the world over together with India.

The sudden development in Sign’s userbase at a time when WhatsApp is dealing with flak for its not too long ago carried out privateness coverage is probably going the reason for the servers taking place. Many immediate messaging apps, together with WhatsApp, have confronted comparable situations often. Whereas some customers aren’t pleased with the servers being down, others have additionally taken the app’s server overload as a optimistic signal pointing to extra individuals utilizing Sign. Take a look at the tweets under

Dealing with this difficulty pic.twitter.com/YHnZMoN6m2

— Rohit Choudhary (@rohit_badhala) January 15, 2021

When you’re questioning why sign is down, may need one thing to do with their installs rising from 10 million to 50 million since jan 12 https://t.co/7PCwnp1uel

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) January 15, 2021

So blissful to see sign getting a variety of new customers. These issues are momentary. Your privateness although, needs to be ceaselessly. Use sign, inform your mates too. https://t.co/RhyIMsX2Kk

— Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (@brokep) January 15, 2021

Sign and Telegram proceed to be two of the most well-liked immediate messaging apps in use proper now. Sign contains privacy-focused options like relaying voice calls, end-to-end encryption, screenshot safety and extra. The app not too long ago additionally introduced that it plans to rent extra individuals following the sudden rise in customers.