Stop saying Signal requires a phone number to register #224

2026-09-25T12:34:14Z

paulhitt commented

2026-09-25 12:34:14 +00:00

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Signal now documents registration without a phone number, as "Phone Numberless Registration for Android". The comparison table still said No for Signal, glossed "A number is required to register". That is the same stale-in-our-own-favour scoring the page already admits to in its post-quantum paragraph, pointed at a competitor this time.

What changed

The row is now Partly, naming what the registration actually is: new accounts on Android, paid, and no way for an account that already has a number to drop it.
The lede no longer claims we are alone in not asking for a number, because we are not. What is still only ours is that it costs nothing and needs no app store account.
Both languages. The sources list gains the support article; the checked-date moves to September 2026.

What could not be verified

This machine cannot resolve support.signal.org and the in-app browser is blocked from it, so Signal's own article was never read. The price and the accepted payment methods are therefore left off the page rather than taken from a news write-up, especially as the two secondary sources disagree on the payment rail. They agree it is a paid registration, which is the only part the row asserts. Worth filling in from a machine that can reach it.

The test

ComparisonClaimsTests renders both languages and pins the claim. Nothing rendered the Spanish page before: PublicPagesTests reads those templates as text, which catches a broken link and not a template that fails to render, and the SEO suite renders /comparison alone. Falsified by putting the old Spanish sentence back, which fails on /es/comparison by name.

752 tests in 77 suites, no failures.

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Signal now documents registration without a phone number, as "Phone Numberless Registration for Android". The comparison table still said **No** for Signal, glossed "A number is required to register". That is the same stale-in-our-own-favour scoring the page already admits to in its post-quantum paragraph, pointed at a competitor this time. ### What changed - The row is now **Partly**, naming what the registration actually is: new accounts on Android, paid, and no way for an account that already has a number to drop it. - The lede no longer claims we are alone in not asking for a number, because we are not. What is still only ours is that it costs nothing and needs no app store account. - Both languages. The sources list gains the support article; the checked-date moves to September 2026. ### What could not be verified This machine cannot resolve `support.signal.org` and the in-app browser is blocked from it, so Signal's own article was never read. The price and the accepted payment methods are therefore **left off the page** rather than taken from a news write-up, especially as the two secondary sources disagree on the payment rail. They agree it is a paid registration, which is the only part the row asserts. Worth filling in from a machine that can reach it. ### The test `ComparisonClaimsTests` renders both languages and pins the claim. Nothing rendered the Spanish page before: `PublicPagesTests` reads those templates as **text**, which catches a broken link and not a template that fails to render, and the SEO suite renders `/comparison` alone. Falsified by putting the old Spanish sentence back, which fails on `/es/comparison` by name. --- **752 tests in 77 suites, no failures.** 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

paulhitt commented

2026-09-25 12:35:50 +00:00

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paulhitt commented

2026-09-25 13:25:18 +00:00

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mentioned in commit 5503e3dab0

mentioned in commit 5503e3dab05cdc5ef0b9a34dfd91915431d282d2

paulhitt (Migrated from gitlab.com) merged commit 5503e3dab0 into main

2026-09-25 13:25:18 +00:00

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Reference: extant2000/flamenet-relay#224