Comment by oezi
2 years ago
While I am thankful that Signal exists and is a considerate of privacy concerns I don't think their decisions are always right.
For instance, I would love to see picture sent to me by my spouse automatically saved to camera roll. Signal has no option for this because it could put the privacy of me and the sender in jeopardy.
I actually like it this way. Occasionally (not always, which is even more confusing), images from random Whatsapp conversations ends up in the Android equivalent of my camera roll, and it annoys me to no end.
My camera roll is for photos that I have taken. If I want to put something from someone else in there, that's a decision I will pro-actively make. Other apps shouldn't be doing that for me.
WhatsApp has this feature and it drives me nuts. My roll is full of crap people (especially chat groups) send me and I have to clean it up every now and then. I surely hope Signal doesn't do this and keeps the current approach of allowing users the option to download the images they want, when they want.
They have a community forum with a feature request system. Though I'll admit it's a big echo chamber there. But every new user adds a new voice and I can't see how that isn't a good thing.
Fwiw, I want this feature too. And others. I've submitted feature requests in the past. I even asked that usernames add QR codes and links. I'm not sure if I was heard, but hey, the feature is there and even some of the echo people were against it.