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> Maybe I should go back to SMS. In my experience, SMS and Hangouts are equally unreliable messaging protocols. Messages sent through either transport can be d
by simoncion 11y ago
> Maybe I should go back to SMS.
In my experience, SMS and Hangouts are equally unreliable messaging protocols. Messages sent through either transport can be delayed for arbitrary lengths of time or lost entirely.
Everything that's happened with Hangouts that's unrelated to video calling just makes me so sad.
- josteink 11y agoI tried Hangouts v1 and more or less instantly backed out. I was having none of that. Not for IM nor for SMS. After that Google Talk (and thus XMPP) was dead to me. For SMS I could at least revert to the stock AOSP messaging app.
- simoncion 11y agoGoogle Talk is still alive, well, and performing bi-directional message delivery between XMPP clients with a Google Talk account and Hangouts clients. (Or maybe alive but for the fact that a Google VP hasn't noticed that it's still up and running. shrug) Any client that speaks XMPP should work just fine to reach into Google's IM silo for direct messaging. I make frequent, daily use of Pidgin for this purpose. Sadly, the only way to access group chats is through the official client. Also: If you haven't already, check out TextSecure by Open Whisper Systems. It has the best group-SMS handling of any MMS client I've tried. It's also made and maintained by a group of folks who are really concerned with making secure software that also happens to be as easy to use as is possible.