tehstu, 3 months ago

@ben Oh, interesting. So can you be looked up via username, or do you have to give out a URL with that long random string after it?

ben, 3 months ago

@tehstu You can just provide the username and it'll work.

sarajw, 3 months ago

@ben ooh I want to set a username! Doesn't appear that options is available for me... Yet?

Have signed up to beta test 🤞

ben, 3 months ago

@sarajw It's beta users only - anyone can sign up for the beta apps from their website. Or the mainline app users will get it in a few weeks.

sarajw, 3 months ago

@ben thank you! Just found my way to that info too, and clicked the beta tester button :)

jgarber, 3 months ago

@sarajw @ben I just now used the macOS desktop beta app to set my username. Downloads for various OSes are here:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318471-Signal-Beta

(Sara, you may have already done that, though? I went that route rather than wait for TestFlight to open up.)

sarajw, 3 months ago

@jgarber @ben I've clicked on the button for Android beta testing, so we'll see!

sarajw, 3 months ago

@jgarber @ben aha, I could update to beta and now I've done it. Nice!

Interesting that you always have to have digits, makes less of an 'omg I need to secure MY username' feeling, probably a good thing. I very nearly chose 01 so I could be like "first!" but for spam reasons decided against it...

jgarber, 3 months ago

@sarajw The numeric suffix confused me at first, too. I later realized I could change it from the auto-assigned one. Username with a relevant numeric suffix: SECURED!

sarajw, 3 months ago

@jgarber it was very tempting to use 69 too of course haha

jgarber, 3 months ago

@sarajw “nice” as they say 😂

sarajw, 3 months ago

@jgarber 😏

box464, 3 months ago

@sarajw @jgarber @ben My username already ends in numbers so it worked out well! (box.464)

sarajw, 3 months ago

@box464 @jgarber @ben oh, you can have more than 2 digits! Weird that I didn't even try. Omg I could have.... 1337 🤩