🌐 Website Issue | Make note of Signal allowing signups with UUID

[dngray]

This is just a note so that we can remember to remove the note about signal requiring a phone number.

• Beta feedback for the upcoming Android 4.50 release
• They work on it in the background. See the last @signalapp beta: "Changes to the primary identifier for a contact from telephone number to a UUID."

[ghost]

We just installed Signal 4.50.5 on Android 9 (via Android x86). You still have to enter a valid phone number during registration. As before, you can register any phone number. However, you must be able to receive an SMS or a call to confirm ownership.

Currently, the UUID is likely used for internal management purposes, not to allow people to use another primary identifier. This can change, of course.

[djoate]

They are definitely looking into usernames in general:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/35989761c22fb4a7f9fe6724fc1d3720f5730c9b/Signal/translations/en.lproj/Localizable.strings#L2985

[dngray]

Yeah there aren't many ways of misinterpreting:

"USERNAME_DESCRIPTION" = "Usernames on Signal are optional. If you choose to create a username other Signal users will be able to find you by this username and contact you without knowing your phone number.";

[ghost]

Yeah there aren't many ways of misinterpreting:

"USERNAME_DESCRIPTION" = "Usernames on Signal are optional. If you choose to create a username other Signal users will be able to find you by this username and contact you without knowing your phone number.";

1. We don't know.
2. It is not possible to register 4.50.5 without a phone number.
3. Your quoted text reads like "You still have to register using a phone number, but additionally you can add a username so other Signal users can find you using this username (without knowing your registered phone number)."

[dngray]

This issue was opened as a reminder for me to check in the future changes won't be until we know for certain anyway.

[djoate]

An older community thread: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-introducing-usernames/9157