Have you read the article? They are working on it.

Thank you. I should have read to the end, and I'm glad they're planning to support backups stored on their users' media.

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rPlayer6554 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Where does it say that?

	▲	sambostock 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Our future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing, [...] I also missed this on my first skim of the article though.
	▲	layer8 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		“Our future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing”.

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kelnos 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Their first cut at "working on it" is to require that we pay Signal to store our backups for us (45 days of media and 100MiB total is not a useful free tier; I have more than 1 GiB of messages/media spanning years), when that's an entirely unnecessary restriction.

	▲	teiferer 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know what you do for a living but it's very common when writing and releasing software to do it in phases. Earlier phases have a restricted feature set and feedback from the field/customers/users experiencing earlier phases informs choices in later phases. Unless you have direct insights into their dev process, your claim that the restriction be "entitely unnecessary" seems overly strong.