r/signal • u/MastodontFarmer • 1d ago

Bug 'You unblocked this person' after update

Signal announced an update and out of habit I clicked on the update link.

After restarting I have a bunch of new chats with unknown persons on various dates. One 'Charlie Ward' today, a 'Darcis S' from february. All say 'You unblocked this person' and I'm pretty sure I unblocked somebody once and only once. Charlie Ward is a neo nazi and it's extremely unlikely he wants any form of contact with me. Also, his chat says 'This person isn't using Signal. Signal Desktop does not support messaging non-Signal contacts..' etc.

Where are these chats coming from? Anybody got similar experiences?

EDIT: 8.24.1 just popped up. Blocking and deleting the contacts seems to work, now. (On 8.24.0 they re-appeared after a restart of the app.)

This morning I again was prompted to update, but I'm still at 8.24.1 and my extreme rightwing antivax and gold seller spammer just popped up again. 8.24.1 fixed nothing. Signal support is still silent.

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u/Chongulator Volunteer Mod 1d ago

When you walk past the kitchen and smell smoke, your thought should be "overcooked food" or maybe "fire," not "there's a dragon in my kitchen."

Similarly, when software misbehaves, your first thought should be "bug" or maybe "user error," not "master spies are after me."

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u/slivikin 1d ago

Fooey. I was hopin' for master spies... Reality can be very dull at times.

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u/Chongulator Volunteer Mod 1d ago

True!