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651 points openchampagne | 4 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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happyopossum ◴[04 Feb 25 21:12 UTC] No.42938792[source]▶
My wife is in a position (board chair for a co-op) that results in her sending out a lot of invites to events. Evite has kinda been the go-to in her social/co-op group for ages, but man it suuuuuuucks these days. Ads everywhere, annoying patterns, and lacks a bunch of nice features that this seems to have.

Very happy to see this

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echelon ◴[04 Feb 25 22:03 UTC] No.42939573[source]▶
Luma and Partiful are really good.

This Apple thing is going to turn into a "green text" social signalling thing all over again. If you have an Android, you won't be invited.

More scummy Apple social engineering bullshit. Kids that already hate on those having Android colored text bubbles are going to bully each other even more. And of course kids need the latest iPhone, too.

Apple is playing into this brilliantly and it's disgusting.

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astrange ◴[04 Feb 25 22:15 UTC] No.42939739[source]▶
This green text thing only happens in the US. Nobody really uses iMessage elsewhere.
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echelon ◴[04 Feb 25 22:17 UTC] No.42939768[source]▶
It shouldn't be allowed in the US. Lina Khan was going to put a stop to it, but tragically that didn't reach its culmination.
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briandear ◴[04 Feb 25 22:21 UTC] No.42939820[source]▶
Why? Does the color affect functionality or are we going to pass laws based on feelings?
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TheDong ◴[04 Feb 25 22:33 UTC] No.42940002[source]▶
It does. If you try to send a photo in an inferior green bubble chat, you get an error. Face time calls don’t work.

The text is harder to read for me because it’s low contrast and can’t be configured.

It’s significantly less secure, and a government agent required I use blue bubble imessage to submit an important document for security, and wouldn’t accept it by sms or email since both were not secure enough

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1. Spivak ◴[04 Feb 25 22:53 UTC] No.42940303[source]▶
What are you talking about? Photos have worked in MSS group chats for 10+ years now. They send as shit quality but they work. And now mixed group chats are RCS which has all the important features of iMessage.
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2. TheDong ◴[04 Feb 25 23:24 UTC] No.42940726[source]▶
The error tells me to turn on MMS, which is already on.

RCS isn’t an obvious option anywhere

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3. Aloisius ◴[05 Feb 25 00:38 UTC] No.42941649[source]▶
Settings > Apps > Messages > RCS Messaging

If it isn't there, About > Settings > General > About and tap the Carrier row. If it doesn't say RCS, the carrier doesn't support it.

Also one should note, MMS also requires carrier support and a few carriers don't support it in some countries.

There's a list of supported features for carriers worldwide at https://support.apple.com/en-gb/108048

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4. TheDong ◴[05 Feb 25 09:03 UTC] No.42945910{3}[source]▶
Got it, I'll move to a country that supports RCS at my earliest convenience, and also not message anyone while I'm roaming to another carrier on vacation.

My carrier should support MMS, but I haven't yet had it work (and inbound messages to my number, like the picture of a family-member's wedding invite sent to my phone number, just silently vanish into the void)... I just kinda assumed it was working as expected since I'd heard so much about the green bubble issues.