# Integration of https://signal.org/ chat **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-of-https-signal-org-chat/275363 **Category:** Feature **Tags:** chat-integration **Created:** [August 16, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-of-https-signal-org-chat/275363 "2023-08-16T10:48:04Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![Thomas\_Rother](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thomas_rother/32/423597_2.png) [@Thomas\_Rother](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_Rother) #### Post date: [November 23, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-of-https-signal-org-chat/275363/9 "2023-11-23T22:31:15Z")
I discussed this a bit earlier from a non-technical perspective with discourse staff people. In Germany, many non-profit communities use chat systems as their only place for group communication. It is not easy to convince them that discourse is a much better solution for “high-quality” digital interaction. With a bit more insights into the technical details I now would agree that it is really a very hard (\>\> costly) task to create a link between a signal group chat as the source and a discourse platform as the target for some kind of “automatic group communication mirror”. The better way is to directly convince people that a switch to discourse is the best alternative to signal/whatsapp etc etc. But for this we would need a bit more improvements on the “discourse mobile/android” front, as already discussed at > [@Discourse Mobile: chat improvements, notifications, widget](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-mobile-chat-improvements-notifications-widget/257034/16): > > Hi there! I had to register because I noticed this topic. Here are findings of mine: If not in PWA mode page LAGS a lot when the top address bar is being hidden/shown in mobile chrome because some element in page contains either value in % of main viewport or “vh” unit. I had to install PWA to avoid it, but… I’m not sure if this is to do with the specific PWA I installed but it does have white circle instead of icon. And the other thing is that when you scroll up a thread you can accidentally… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-of-https-signal-org-chat/275363)._