Welcome feature, as hopefully it increases adoption, but seems like Signal is going the wrong direction. Getting feature like stories right and picked up is hard. You need to do a lot of analytics and UX testing. Signal team is not set up for this. This something, that is nice to have and can be iterated on until a sweet spot found, but in the meantime Signal is missing some important features directly related to it core mission: secure communication: 1. support multiple phone numbers 2. support usernames without phone number 3. ios message export 4. Hidden chats(not visible unless a secret combination is entered) – this is really necessary, because oppressive regimes don’t crack your encrypted, they detain and ask you to unlock your phone and show your message history. 5. Call quality between the US callers is pretty good. But in Europe it wasn’t as smooth for me. 6. Offline mode - when Internet isn’t available. Either using local servers or mesh networks. This is a massive change, but it would truly boost Signal resilience.