There is desktop electron app that works mostly OK (as far as electon apps go). Unfortunately, you need a mobile phone with the signal app to start using it.
Also, if you forget to open the desktop app for a few weeks, it breaks the link and you have to go get your phone anyway.
And it doesn't show any messages that came in on the phone during that time, so you're missing context and in practice you just have to use the phone for everything anyway.
I think (but don't quote me on this) that you don't need the Signal phone app to start using it. As long as you have a phone that can receive text messages, I think you can also enter the confirmation number into the desktop app.
When my phone gets turned off I get a signal can't connect error message on the current desktop app. I don't know if that's just how my account and desktop app is linked, but that's my current experience.
There is desktop electron app that works mostly OK (as far as electon apps go). Unfortunately, you need a mobile phone with the signal app to start using it.
Also, if you forget to open the desktop app for a few weeks, it breaks the link and you have to go get your phone anyway.
And it doesn't show any messages that came in on the phone during that time, so you're missing context and in practice you just have to use the phone for everything anyway.
I think (but don't quote me on this) that you don't need the Signal phone app to start using it. As long as you have a phone that can receive text messages, I think you can also enter the confirmation number into the desktop app.
When my phone gets turned off I get a signal can't connect error message on the current desktop app. I don't know if that's just how my account and desktop app is linked, but that's my current experience.
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You are probably right. But I'm so afraid to lose my message history that I'm not willing to do an experiment to replicate this.
Depends on your definition of usable. It sends and receives messages and has been for years now.
There's been a desktop option since 2015. And the Electron based app since 2017.