soohyung

You'd be surprised, there are many sites that don't even support names longer than some arbitrary limit like 5 or 10 characters because Korean names are typically 3 to 4 characters long.

The phone number is typically required for real-name verification. Pair that with the low character limit above and a lot of stuff just breaks.

I think non-Korean customers just are not much of a consideration for Korean companies unfortunately.

Unfortunately in many countries even prepaid SIM cards are directly tied to government ID verification. I know this has been discussed many times, but I agree that it would be nice to be able to use Signal for secure communications without a phone number.

The argument for people using age to replace GnuPG (PGP really) is that there are better signing tools that you really should be using (minisign/signify) and PGP should not be used for the web-of-trust anymore anyway. There are many good arguments against PGP for all of these things.

I think they couldn't care less about lists. They are super annoying to access and ever since the last update which brought the mobile layout to desktop you can't even create a new list from the "add to list" screen anymore.

Sadly the entire update still feels half-baked and not thought-through and given that it's been months I don't feel too optimistic. There's so many small things that worked fine before and are just missing completely or broken now. It's a shame because I've been using Twitter for a decade but it's hardly useable now.

If you have the money, sure. Not everyone is in the silicon valley tech bubble and can afford it.

You won't be anonymous to the VPN company so a specific corporation can identify you though. Something like Tor would be a better choice.

It's faster. But if you already have a working system that you are happy with it may not warrant a switch. I think it's main strength lies in how easy it is to set up though. First time setting it up from scratch I had a working VPN in less than 5 minutes.

The password is only the last 8 characters, everything before the colon is the password's hash.