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MMS
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with MMS, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Image sending over MMS either compresses badly or fails to send2026-09-07
- Group chats via MMS are nearly unusable for the person messaging2023-09-28
- Images are compressed so heavily they become unusable2022-09-30
- MMS slideshows cannot be paused or navigated, only play through once2021-01-07
- Requires multiple clicks to send a picture, unlike Snapchat's single button2016-02-11