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check out https://html5zombo.com/ for a more modern take on this amazing site.
Great, so between Chrome and Safari’s total 80% market share we’re basically fucked. Now’s the time to get friends/family to change to a non-Chrome browser.
Yes they are allowed. The devs have nothing against third party clients as long as they’re not abusing the network or pretending to be the official Signal app.
The issue you’re referring to happened, I believe, around 2016 and it was specific to one developer who was using a similar app name and the lead Signal dev basically told them specifically to not use their network.
Almost every other Signal client since then even report to Signal’s servers as a third party client - and the signal devs can see this in their logs - and nobody has been kicked/asked to stop anything since.
I also seem to recall the issue may have been 3rd party clients unintentionally abusing the network at the time, causing issues for other users, so I can see the frustration from a dev perspective to potentially be woken up at midnight for an issue/outage affecting your users, that is caused or at least made worse by clients that are pegging their servers.
If anyone has more background or corrections, please let me know so I can update/edit my statement.
I can go surfing in the morning, hike beautiful mountains in the evening, and experience the TJ nightlife, all in a single day. The next day I can go offroading in ocotillo or take a stroll through a park bigger than NY’s Central Park. idk, my section of California is heaven.
I’d recommend Organic Maps before OsmAnd+ nowadays. I’ve found it performs better and is easier to navigate. Power users may want to stick with OsmAnd+.
From their site:
Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation
Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data. It is a privacy-focused, open-source fork of Maps.me app (previously known as MapsWithMe), maintained by the same people who created MapsWithMe in 2011.
Organic Maps is one of a few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection. Install Organic Maps, download maps, throw away your SIM card (by the way, your operator constantly tracks you), and go for a weeklong trip on a single battery charge without any byte sent to the network.