What improvements will this update bring?
Upgrading to Groups v2 will unlock a smoother, more reliable experience. This update brings significant improvements under the hood that directly enhance group chat functionality:
- Members will be able enjoy a more consistent messaging experience in groups.
- Group-wide settings, like disappearing messages, will sync more reliably across everyone’s devices, keeping things consistent for all members.
- Creating a new group will also be smoother and more reliable, making it far less likely that users run into issues or end up with duplicate groups.
- Users will also be able to resend group invitations and manage group membership more easily.
As someone who still has yet to be convinced by a single -privacy- focused messenger solution, I’m looking forward to trying these enhancements out.
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Wow dope! Also some important info for those TL;DR types….
2. Groups v2 is enabled — Wednesday March 19th 22:00 UTC .
New group functionality will be switched on.
Admins will be able to recreate their old groups using the new Groups v2 architecture.
Any new groups created on Session by users who have installed the latest update will also use the new and improved Groups v2 architecture.
3. Old group chats become read-only — Wednesday April 2nd 22:00 UTC.
Old group chats will switch to read-only mode, 14 days after Groups v2 is enabled.
You’ll still be able to view past conversations, but it won’t be possible to change settings, view or edit the members list, or send and receive messages.
I think that the mentioned objectives has been fulfilled by the v2 upgrade, since I have not seen any Session groups related issues since the upgrade and did not read from anyone else. In the not so distant future, it will be possible to increase number of members and characters limit for paid users.
Sessions as an alternative to Signal still leaves a lot to be desired. I love that they don’t require a phone number, and it’s partly for that reason that I prefer Sessions for talking to complete strangers on the internet.
That being said, one of my biggest issues with Sessions is that they don’t allow you to create groups where you are the sole member.
Yes, I know that I can write messages to myself, but when you send yourself a lot of messages, at some point you need to organize them, which is why I use groups to send myself different types of messages.
I have multiple groups on Signal where I am the sole member of. I should be able to do the same with Sessions. I shouldn’t have to invite someone to create a group.
Another thing I wish they had is rich text formatting, but that is a distant secondary need to my desire for solo groups.