Many people have commented on why this is devastating news regarding future adoption of Signal. But there is a second part to the announcement that hasn't received a lot of attention yet:

> If you want to keep them, you’ll also need to export your SMS messages from Signal into that new app.

So that means my text messages will be removed from my Signal chat history? Put differently, considering how many of my contacts over the years switched between using Signal, not using Signal, and using Signal again, this means that parts of my conversations will suddenly be gone and conversations might suddenly be incoherent?

I have trouble expressing just how angry I am about this change.