> When a communication system silently drops messages, this is unacceptable. But people are ok with it because they're accustomed to it being shit. Or they are

> When a communication system silently drops messages, this is unacceptable. But people are ok with it because they're accustomed to it being shit. Or they are OK with it because they have never had their SMS messages dropped, like me (that I know of). At least here (Finland) SMS is used for a lot of stuff like bank transfer verification and postal package pickup notifications, having many dropped messages would seemingly make it unsuitable for those purposes. Of course, MMS is a completely different story and I've seen issues left and right on various phones and carriers. I don't think anybody really even uses MMS group chats here.