Title: Signal was a brilliant app. It can send messages with rich media, host group chats, and even do voice and video calls, all with the peace of mind that comes from a proper secure messaging app. The best part was that you could still send messages to people who don&#x27;t use Signal. Signal was the messaging app everyone wants - all the benefits of iMessage, without being siloed in one particular ecosystem.<p>Sometime leading up to October of 2022, the folks at the Signal foundation lost the plot. Signal has since dropped support for SMS, and is inexplicably adding &quot;stories&quot; to their personal messaging app. I despise this.<p>Instead of just complaining about it, I decided to do something about it. Here is a link to a version of the Signal Android app that still supports SMS, and doesn&#x27;t have stories. There also isn&#x27;t a stupid, nagging banner telling you to update. Right now, it&#x27;s just Signal 5.38 with a couple lines commented out, but I plan to integrate any upstream security&#x2F;UX improvements in the near future. For now, you&#x27;ll have to build&#x2F;install it yourself, but I will eventually put an APK out there for people to download. Enjoy!
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