I see no reason to back-up my history ever. I don't use signal for anything that needs to be archived. Nor do any of my friends. One of the selling points of signal is the feature that it doesn't automatically save photos, this is a good feature. You manually save the photos you want to save.
And I thought people regularly backed up everything worth saving from phones to non phone archive anyway.
> I see no reason to back-up my history ever. I don't use signal for anything that needs to be archived.
Every single time this comes up, someone chimes in saying they don't need it.
That does not invalidate the users who do need it. If I can't keep my messages from device to device, I'm not going to use Signal.
With far more manual effort than should be required, I can move my messages from Android device to Android device, if the old device is still functional. That's still not fully sufficient; I need a reliable automatic (encrypted) backup solution.
iOS signal has no backups and migrations routinely fail. I've lost years of message history multiple times attempting iOS -> iOS migrations. It's a shame it's so botched and has made me stop recommending Signal to people entirely.
And I thought people regularly backed up everything worth saving from phones to non phone archive anyway.