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Do you know another way to fit a 3000 long message into a 160ish SMS?
by mococa 5mo ago
Do you know another way to fit a 3000 long message into a 160ish SMS?
- philipwhiuk 5mo agoWhy 3000 ? Set a character limit. If the detail is important they can just send 2.. or 10.
- ForHackernews 5mo agowrite a shorter emergency message? "I was in a car accident, come to general hospital downtown"
- TZubiri 5mo agoOk I understand the usecase now. I would have used two textboxes, Title and description, but this works as well.
- MSFT_Edging 5mo ago19 SMS messages. Does anyone still pay per text?
- flexagoon 5mo ago> Does anyone still pay per text? It makes much more sense outside the US than to pay for a text bundle. My phone plan includes 0 SMS messages, and I don't know what was the last time when I've had to send one was. It's only useful when someone doesn't have internet, which only happens once every few months at most.
- account42 5mo agoYou are generalizing quite a bit here, not everywhere "outside the US" is the same. Here almost all phone plans that aren't data only come with unlimited SMS - and we never paid for receiving them anyway.
- ianburrell 5mo agoDon't write long messages in an emergency. If it can't fit in one message, it probably doesn't matter. Instead of trying to predict everything, allow communication. Let them figure it out, don't command them. Also, you might consider using existing messaging app. Then you can interact if have them install the app. Matrix might work. I think Matrix can do SMS.