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988 points keyboardJones | 2 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.019s | source
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sneak ◴[08 Sep 25 22:23 UTC] No.45174849[source]▶
If Signal is offering pay-for-media-storage, it would be nice to be able to pay to send full-resolution media. I’m a photographer and every image sent via Signal that isn’t zipped first is TOTALLY DESTROYED by silent recompression.

https://sneak.berlin/20210425/signal-is-wrecking-your-images...

Also, the donation spam in Signal doesn’t let me donate Mobilecoin from the wallet right inside Signal. What’s the point of having a payments feature if I can’t use it to pay you?

Please allow payments to Signal to be done in Signal’s native payment system.

I would love to subscribe to Signal in a privacy-preserving way.

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1. daveoc64 ◴[08 Sep 25 22:37 UTC] No.45175003[source]▶
Have you changed the image quality settings in the app to "High" - I see no mention of that in your blog post.
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2. sneak ◴[08 Sep 25 22:39 UTC] No.45175042[source]▶
Yes, though IIRC the setting didn’t exist until after I wrote that blog post.

Even “High” is still total shit. I frequently contemplate hacking the client app and recompiling it to remove image recompression entirely.