With simple messager selling out & qksms no longer being actively worked on. What’s our options for open source sms messagers?

Should I dedicate time to learning flutter and building my own or does anyone know any cool foss projects working on this issue?

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    11 months ago

    So how do you have group chats or send files with your non-Signal contacts?

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      11 months ago

      You don’t x)

      More seriously, in these cases, I often rely on emails instead. But I don’t really use group chats a lot (even with my contacts that are on Signal), nor send many files, so it’s not features I really miss. And SMS works with everyone, so it’s always my default if the contact isn’t on Signal.

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        11 months ago

        Blimey, you and I have wildly different use cases, I don’t think I’ve sent an email to someone who wasn’t a business for decades!

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      11 months ago

      Group chats work over SMS. I use cloud links for large files or just SMS/MMS for pictures and you just live with the low quality if texting with an iPhone user.

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        11 months ago

        SMS doesn’t have group chats does it? Unless your client is just sending the same message to everyone and grouping together the responses?

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          11 months ago

          I mean, maybe? I’ve used group texts with every sms client on every android smartphone I’ve ever used. Don’t know how it works on the backend.

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      11 months ago

      It has never occurred to me to do either of those things, and apparently hasn’t to anyone I’m in contact with either.

      Though I don’t use group chats or send files in Signal either, so there’s that.