flash on Nostr: ⚡️💬 NEW - New Signal code suggests they're adding a paid feature for people ...
⚡️💬 NEW - New Signal code suggests they're adding a paid feature for people who don't want to register with a phone number. This comes after their CTO Ehren Kret said that Signal was looking for a way to induce a cost for signing up without a phone number.
Unreleased code in Signal's public Android repo describes a "Signal Login" purchase screen: users either make a one-time in-app payment or register with an account key they already own.
Signal hasn't announced it yet.
Published at
2026-08-10 04:05:44 UTCEvent JSON
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