Signal-Desktop

Signal — Private Messenger for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Explore on GitHub Read Hacker News discussions

2Distinct people

2Mentions

0Explicit recommenders

147GitHub stars

REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Signal — Private Messenger for Windows, Mac, and Linux

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-11-10 21:28:39 UTC to 2021-11-25 08:45:22 UTC.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges

UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Nov 10	2021-11-10 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-11 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Nov 11	2021-11-11 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 12	2021-11-12 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-13 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 13	2021-11-13 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-14 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 14	2021-11-14 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 15	2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 16	2021-11-16 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-17 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 17	2021-11-17 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-18 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 18	2021-11-18 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 19	2021-11-19 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-20 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 20	2021-11-20 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 21	2021-11-21 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 22	2021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 23	2021-11-23 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 24	2021-11-24 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-25 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 25	2021-11-25 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-26 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

2 sources

mthld·Nov 25, 2021

The community already done that: https://github.com/dennisameling/signal-desktop (working on Windows & Apple ARM). Still, I think it's a shame that all the work was done, ready to be merged (needed PRs were open) and Signal devs just shut the door on it.

In Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon

waych·Nov 10, 2021

It's opensource by license. Nobody has to be "authorized" to do anything with code shared. That's not how the licenses work. > FOSS is about power to the end users, and Signal is fighting hard against it. "power" here means the ability to derive your own forks (see https://github.com/dennisameling/Signal-Desktop). Being OSS doesn't mean they have to be fully transparent on their plans, nor does it mean they have to cave to abusive behavior in PRs, feature requests or forums.

In Signal devs don't intend to support Apple M1