Whisperfish - The unofficial SailfishOS Signal client

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#1003

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.23 “FOSDEM release”

Sever cool new features! I tagged this during the Sailfish OS dinner on FOSDEM-Saturday :slight_smile:

(registration is still broken, but we’re working on the root cause!)

Changes

  • Implement disappearing messages (a huge effort by @direc85 and myself)
  • Implement message style rendering (mentions, bold/italics/…)
  • Implement receiving message edits
  • Preparatory work for phonenumber privacy (PNP/PNI)
  • Delete message notifications on remote message deletion
  • Some other small clean ups that were long overdue
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#1004

Important note about disappearing messages: Any existing chats will now expose and actually respect the expiry period (if such is set). The “delete timer” for any old messages start when you open the chat with expiring messages and see the messages (again) – this means that old messages and attachments are not deleted until you open the chat. The expiry period is saved per-message, so history is obeyed in that sense.

This behavior gives users opportunity to save the attachments out of the messages (open the attachment and select export from top pulley menu) before they are deleted with the message – this is something Signal clients lets you do as well.

This is an important feature Whisperfish should have supported a long time ago, but all the puzzle pieces fell into place only now.

If you’re worried about losing data because of disappearing messages, making a backup of Whisperfish data folder is always a good, well, backup!

And as always, please report any issues and bugs you find!

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#1005

Guys, you are incredible!
(this is a non-disappearing message :grin:)

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#1006

Just a quick update: We’re preparing a small release to fix a few bugs and improve application performance. This will happen Soon™ :wink: This means now is the perfect time to translate Whisperfish using Weblate!

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Whisperfish has had new translatable strings in most releases, the most recent notable addition being disappearing messages in beta.23 - that was 17 new strings if I remember correctly.

Help us get more languages completed! This is something only the community can make happen :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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#1007

Yes indeed. I just did Dutch, so I remember that too :’-)

#1008

Just finished Greek :slight_smile:

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#1009

Did a bit of German.

Tried to do:

  • HĂśfliches Sie → Du-Form
  • “Gespräch” or “Konversation” → Unterhaltung
  • less passive forms

So please review also existing strings.

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#1010

My very impatient girlfriend didn’t bother to transfer her old Signal account to new iphone and created a new account with the same phone number and now I can’t send her messages on Whisperfish, though receiving them works fine. Any ideas how to fix this?

#1011

That doesn’t sound great. Can you send me logs for receiving and sending a message? I have seen similar things happen on new registrations, and I’m torn between prekey registration issues and PNI issues…

If it is indeed PNI: as a workaround, you should be able to respond in Signal Desktop, after which she will have your ACI/PNI linked together, and WF should understand again what’s happening.

#1012

I would love to send you logs if I knew how. In the settings there is option to enable and store logs, where are the logs saved? Do I have to pick part of log or send the whole thing or what?
I alreay tried replying her both on pc and android app, still can’t on WF

#1013

Hi @turmelus1
There is good info on collecting logs in the wiki. See:

Hope this helps.

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#1014

I saw some way up thar registration has been troublesome. Also, in Storeman it seems like the current version has problems.

Therefore I tried registering with an official Android app to be able to set Whisperfish as secondary. No such luck.

How can I use Whisperfish?

#1015

Neither registration nor linking works currently. We first have to implement PNP correctly, which is the base primitive for the today-released usernames feature.

#1016

Ok, so new users of Whisperfish is impossible?

Whenever possible I would like to only use Whisperfish and delete the Android app from my phone. Will that be possible or will I have to re-register?

#1017

It will be possible again, but I will still advice to keep either Signal Android or Molly around for emergencies :slight_smile:

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#1018

Almost finished French.
Sorry to ask but what does Disappearing messages, custom "time amount" label mean, more precisely?

Thanks

#1019

It’s this one here:

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#1020

Thing is: due to surprising api updates, whisperfish tends to stop working now and then, so a backup app, can be on laptop, is never bad

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#1021

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.24

Faster

(registration is still broken)

Changes

  • Fixes for expiring messages
  • Fixes for rendering spoilers containing URLs
  • Sending multiple attachments in a single message
  • A lot of performance improvements
  • Typing messages are back!
  • Fix a bug with deleted formatted messages

With a big thank-you to @direc85 for basically doing everything in this version :slight_smile:

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#1022

Hello rubdos,
I had to switch my phone 7 months ago and since then without whispwrfish :frowning:
Is link device now working ?
Thanks !
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