<story><title>Improving first impressions on Signal</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>Just got a new phone and migrating Signal was a total disaster. The first thing I did was login to the new phone which is apparently the wrong thing to do because you lose all your old messages and there&amp;#x27;s no option to import after you login. You have to logout but &lt;i&gt;there is no logout&lt;/i&gt;. Gotta uninstall and reinstall, or clear app data. Next I tried the account migration feature which requires using both phones simultaneously, hope you didn&amp;#x27;t erase your old phone yet. But it doesn&amp;#x27;t work anyway, it&amp;#x27;s just broken. So after failing at that several times, then I had to manually make a backup on the old phone, write down a 20 digit numeric code that&amp;#x27;s only displayed once on screen, transfer the backup file manually, type the code on the new phone, and then it logged me in but silently failed to import the backup. Had to uninstall again and did the exact same steps again and then it finally worked. What a travesty. Security shouldn&amp;#x27;t come with this kind of UX disaster.</text></comment>
<story><title>Improving first impressions on Signal</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Edit: I’m out of date for most of this. Way to go Signal team! See comments below my complainy post.&lt;p&gt;Forcing me to recite my PIN every few weeks is one of the most irritating UX I’ve seen.&lt;p&gt;I’m sure there’s some smart engineer explanation in terms of cryptography and being unable to recover it if lost. But just let me disable it if I’m okay losing my entire account if I forget it.&lt;p&gt;Also last time I checked the binding of a phone number to Signal was really bad. I had a friend abandon Signal and I could never sms them ever again.</text></comment>