I love Signal and have advocated for its use. But I have to say that this issue is trust-breaking.
I lovingly forgive the occasional bug or unpolished feature and I understand that the team behind Signal are human and that programming is hard. But sending messages to the wrong people is very high on the list of things a messenger should never ever ever do!
Having an issue like this remain open for 7.5 months hints at a systemic issue, which is probably be related to Signal being underfunded/understaffed. But regardless of the reason and of everyone's good intentions, the fact remains that similar issues can and probably will happen again, and may again take months to fix.
Bug reported 2020-12-04, fixed release tagged 2021-07-15 (if I'm identifying the commit correctly, same day the fix is merged, which one would hope for a high-priority bug like that). That's technically 7.3 months, not 7.5, true, but ...
I lovingly forgive the occasional bug or unpolished feature and I understand that the team behind Signal are human and that programming is hard. But sending messages to the wrong people is very high on the list of things a messenger should never ever ever do!
Having an issue like this remain open for 7.5 months hints at a systemic issue, which is probably be related to Signal being underfunded/understaffed. But regardless of the reason and of everyone's good intentions, the fact remains that similar issues can and probably will happen again, and may again take months to fix.