alt Hacker News> Interestingly here, the sqlite DB would be trivially fixable, and messages restorable, with the `sqlite3` CLI.
It seems to me like the app itself should be able to perform this operation and restore data? Why is this not just fixed in the app?
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nikanj • today at 2:56 PM
Because lost messages are safe. If the user data is gone, it can’t be stolen!
Because Signal developers do not spend time on this.
Which is all well; after all nobody is paying them to do it.
My complaint is that they + iOS simultaneously prevent able users from fixing it themselves, or paying somebody to fix it.