@humungus,
here is an article, why signal uses amazon aws
https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
The connection to ubports or ubuntu could be the push-notifications-server.
What do you mean by "strange name"? The used namespace is textsecure.nanuc. The textsecure is the historical name of signal and nanuc us the name of the maintainer.

Best

As flo said, we are working on a completly new Telegram app that will support audio and actually is ready to playback audio files. You can get a alpha version of it if it's really urgent but, we think it will be ready end of the year.

Actually Onion Browser is a full clone of Morph browser and when morph improves it has to be merged anyway

The problem here is, that morph and onion are registering an url handler...

I will have a look into adding tor to morph, but my idea was to get some feedback from the tor foundation, because then we have a semi-official tor-browser.
That never happend.
Adding non tor browsing means we have something like rival browser to morph and I am the only person maintaining Onion, while ubports and more people are behind the other one.
So either what we need is

• Standard app selection for url handlers -> unlikly to happen soon
• Unregister the url-handler -> i like it to have onion browser as first choice
• Disable/enable option for tor in onion -> how should we visually indicate, that tor is off?
• Add tor to morph -> i have no clue how to addapt the deb building for including tor-binary in the right place -> help needed