Stories flag enabled by default in internal preferences, that doesn't work

[pixincreate]

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Bug description

Title says it all. Internal preferences have have stories enabled by default. However, on checking logs, it showing the status flag as falsewhich I believe is wrong.

Either you unknowingly enabled stories option or it doesn't work as intended.

Steps to reproduce

• install Signal JW version
• Check internal preferences, stories us enabled by default
• however, that option isn't visible

Actual result: stories not flag is disabled Expected result: stores option should be visible

Screenshots

Device info

Device: Android Android version: 12L Signal version: 5.45.2

Link to debug log

[johanw666]

AFAIK this option in internal settings is used to disable stories, even if they become active. The actual active / inactive is determined by Featureflags.java line 455, which defaults to false but can remotely be set to true. I don't try to activate them in my fork by changing the code here.

[pixincreate]

option in internal settings is used to disable stories,

This option already exist by default for Signal once stories option is enabled. I saw that in Signal community feature request forum.

So, I don't think that option that currently exist would be useful for anything and instead, it can be used to enable/disable the actual stories that exist in line 455.