The hopeless romantic in me is hoping the real reason Automattic acquired them was actually to get some useful developer documentation written for the Beepy.
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#122I find it interesting that so many people want to unify all their messages. For me, I like having different apps that I can check with different frequency. I am glad that I can get my iMessages immediately but that LinkedIn messages don't get delivered to me until I open the app/website. I have literally never had an issue where I didn't get a message in time because it was sent via the wrong platform. People who nee…
I like having apps I can check with different frequencies. What I don't like is when I have two apps that I have to check regularly. Thankfully, almost everyone I talk to regularly uses Signal, but there's those few stragglers who stubbornly cling to SMS.
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#123I find it interesting that so many people want to unify all their messages. For me, I like having different apps that I can check with different frequency. I am glad that I can get my iMessages immediately but that LinkedIn messages don't get delivered to me until I open the app/website. I have literally never had an issue where I didn't get a message in time because it was sent via the wrong platform. People who nee…
The problem arise when your friends can text you on Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Viber, Facebook Messenger, Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter, Bsky, Mastodon, Skype, Slack, Email.
It's not that you don't receive messages but that you need to keep installed 14 different applications on your phone or get used to 14 different UIs to do the same thing.
The major problem is the WhatsApp vs Telegram split for me, if all my friends were on Telegram I wouldn't really need it.
Self hosted Matrix sounds like a good solution and I'm happy with managing my own server - but the UI quality (Elements) is just not on par with Telegram, so I'm still there.
I agree with you, it's nice to relegate spam to Linkedin / Email, but that can be achieved with marking contacts as friends vs random people and having a unified messaging platform.
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#124Pidgin
Reminds me of why I used https://pidgin.im 20-years ago.
It was an aggregator chat app.
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#125>If you haven’t heard of Beeper before, welcome! We make a universal chat app – one app to send and receive messages on 14 different chat networks.
I feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks.
What are people using that for?
Marketing / customer service type chat stuff across networks?
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know how the texts.com iMessage integration works? EDIT - It’s macOS only. Nothing new to see here, I’m afraid.
Came to ask the same, is that really true? They have a graphic on their homepage that certainly implies you can use it as a replacement for iMessage on iOS. I can't imagine anyone doing that if you can no longer actually reach anyone on iMessage.
> They have a graphic on their homepage that certainly implies you can use it as a replacement for iMessage on iOS.
You can. You run a "router" on your Mac, which allows iMessage interop without the protocol hacking that doomed Beeper.
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#127Pidgin Reminds me of why I used https://pidgin.im 20-years ago. It was an aggregator chat app.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
No longer as in for a new user that currently uses individual apps.
In context your use of "no longer" is very confusing. This thread is talking about what might change in Beeper as a service, if you want to interject with information about how the service currently works there are other phrases that would have made that clearer.
You are correct. I was adding what I considered extra privacy-relevant information in response to GPs statement about WordPress sharing data with other companies, but the fact that I'd not heard of Beeper before unintentionally influenced my word choice.
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#129I just hope they don't kill Beepberry/beepy
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#130>If you haven’t heard of Beeper before, welcome! We make a universal chat app – one app to send and receive messages on 14 different chat networks. I feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks. What are people using that for? Marketing / customer service type chat stuff across networks?
yes and sales and regular users too
linkedin, fb, ig, slacks, google stuff and so on - it adds up quickly