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I'd agree with this - so many of my non-tech friends are now on signal and seem to like it. The traction that Signal is getting right now feels like its the classic word-of-mouth organic growth that snowballs quickly. I bet their engineering team is getting stretched right now.


> I bet their engineering team is getting stretched right now.

Last week servers were unstable for about 24hrs. But they did grow by about 10x in approximately a week's time, so that's not entirely surprising. I think it's more surprising that they've been so stable so far.


100% this. That's what I mean - I bet their team is just slammed with all that growth and pressure on their systems.




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