Pinned direct message chats don't stay pinned in Signal Desktop while Molly is online

[Anvil5465]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Bug description

See signalapp/Signal-Desktop#6743

If my phone is connected to the internet while attempting to pin a direct message chat in Signal Desktop, the chat will wait a few seconds before unpinning itself. If I disconnect my phone or computer from the internet, it stays pinned. Because the other user who reported this problem is also using Molly, I think it may have something to do with how the new version of Signal Desktop is interacting with the current version of Molly.

Steps to reproduce

1. Connect both desktop and phone apps to the internet
2. Attempt to pin chat on desktop

Molly version

v6.41.3-2-FOSS

Android version

Android 14 (GrapheneOS)

Device

Google Pixel 6a

Link to debug log

https://debuglogs.org/android/6.41.3/76e8e94690d6630f5742c48860a08cd8e122444f45c9d0899ec2e645b27b67e4

[jm355]

I tried unlinking and deleting all data on my linked device, then re-linking. That didn't fix it. One interesting thing that I noticed both before and after trying that, the contact in question hasn't set a profile pic and I haven't either, so it's just the colorful initials default. On my phone it's a light pink, on my linked device it's gray. Maybe the two devices aren't recognizing that it's the same person somehow?

[taivlam]

@jm355 Colored letter avatars (for Signal users using default profile avatars) don't correspond between the phone by default. I'm using both Signal Desktop (stable production) and Signal Desktop Beta on the same laptop, and Signal users with default avatars have different avatar colors.

[taivlam]

@Anvil5465 @jm355 BTW, do you mean you have no secondary Molly clients as linked devices? Just making sure that this issue isn't a duplicate of #266.

[jm355]

I only have 2 devices: my phone with molly foss, and my laptop with signal-desktop linked to my phone

[Anvil5465]

I also have no secondary Molly clients

[jm355]

One interesting thing that just happened, I unpinned the chat on my phone, then pinned it on desktop and then pinned it on my phone (the same chat), and I got a toast notification saying only 4 chats can be pinned at a time. So somewhere along the way signal desktop and molly foss are not recognizing that the chat is the same

[taivlam]

Ok, that makes things clearer - this issue is different than the one I am facing. IIRC, Signal Desktop used to keep the order of pinned chats correct (b/f I added a secondary Molly device).

[hastyeagle]

Any update on this?

I'm having this same issue. I have Molly on my phone, and signal-desktop on my desktop. If I pin a chat on my desktop, within a few seconds it's unpinned. If I pin a chat on Molly, it stays pinned, but does not get pinned automatically on my desktop.

[albirs]

i have the same issue (Molly UP, Signal Desktop Mac, Signal Desktop PC) but only with the "note to self"-Chat.
Other Chats keeps pinned correct in all APPs ...

[Anvil5465]

Other Chats keeps pinned correct in all APPs ...

@albirs Are the other chats group chats? Group chats stay pinned for me, but direct messages do not.

[hastyeagle]

I tested group chats as well, and like @Anvil5465, grouped chats stay pinned on both Molly and Signal desktop for me.

[albirs]

Other Chats keeps pinned correct in all APPs ...

@albirs Are the other chats group chats? Group chats stay pinned for me, but direct messages do not.

your right...
never tested this way - although its described in the topic. (🙈)
so group chats seems work to pin, direct messages not including "note to self"

[kNsja5w]

This also happens to my pinned chats on macOS with Molly as client on Android.

1. Group chats stay pinned
2. Note to Self and Direct Messages become unpinned...

...when opening/using Molly on Android.

[albirs]

... seems fixed in v6.47.4-1 (using v6.47.4-1.up1)
... at least in my Windows Desktop Signal app doesn't happend anymore
EDIT: on my mac also works!

[Anvil5465]

... seems fixed in v6.47.4-1 (using v6.47.4-1.up1) ... at least in my Windows Desktop Signal app doesn't happend anymore

@albirs same here using the Signal Flatpak on Fedora Linux

[hastyeagle]

For my after the upgrade to v6.47.4-1 (using Github APK) it's slightly better. If I pin from Molly, Signal on my desktop does not reflect the change. If I then unpin everything from Molly, and pin from my desktop (direct messages and note to self), that gets reflected back on Molly. But then later it gets unpinned -- I'm still seeing under what conditions that happens.

[jm355]

seems fixed for me. I had to manually pin the chat in signal desktop, it didn't automatically sync to what was pinned in molly, but it's staying pinned at least

[Anvil5465]

Actually, it seems like mine will stay pinned for a while, but like @snakedoctr says, they eventually get un-pinned on desktop. Also not sure what exactly is triggering the un-pinning.

[hastyeagle]

It's still happening for me, too, @Anvil5465. Still not sure what makes them unpin themselves.

[albirs]

... i had to have re-pinned once, on ALL desktop (Mac and Win) apps, when the update came out (v6.47.4-1.up1)
since this all chats stay pinned...

EDIT FYI i'm now using Molly-UP v7.0.1-1.up1

[neunzehnachtneun]

Seems solved to me too. I am using molly-foss 7.0.2-1 and signal desktop 7.2.0-beta.1.
At least I can pin chats on desktop, the pinned chats are transferred to molly and stay pinned.

[johanw666]

Nope, not fixed in 7.1.2. As soon as I pin a new chat in the linked Molly all pinned chats disappear on the main device. Re-linking does not work anymore. I originally had the problem with pinned chats of unregistered accounts but now it also happens with registered accounts.

[derei]

Confirmed: I used two android devices: primary a phone, secondary a tablet. And regardless on which device I would pin a message, it would unpin. Is like the other device is always overwriting the pinned state. I even tried to pin the same chat in both devices, but it didn't persist.

[taivlam]

(meant to put this in issue #266)