Yeah I dont use group call that much too but it will bring more people to Signal so that’s good news Migration from legacy group to group v2 was the last biggest step necessary to have username, so now we can expect to have usenames in several weeks/month

The group call feature request has been very popular, more so since covid.

I know they’re “working” on usernames, unfortunately, signal isn’t very transparent with their roadmap, especially for an open source project.

Their reasoning is here:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9966#issuecomment-681943985

Hey there! Just some background on the website release: it was never intended to be completely free of any Google Play dependencies – instead, all our builds have a fallback such that during registration, if we detect there’s no Play Services, we will fallback to using a websocket for notifications. Using FCM for notification delivery still provides the most reliable user experience and is something we’d prefer to use if the user has Play Services available on their device.

Concerning F-Droid, we already providing an auto-updating APK directly from our site, and we really don’t want forked versions of the app maintained by other parties connecting to our servers. Not only could the users using the forked version have a subpar experience, but the people they’re talking to (using official clients) could also have a subpar experience (for example, an official client could try to send a new kind of message that the fork, having fallen out of date, doesn’t support). I know you say you’d advocate for a build expiry, but you know how things go. Of course you have our full support if you’d like to fork Signal, name it something else, and use your own servers.

I think the rest of the discussion can happen on #9644. Thanks!