RCS messaging

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with RCS messaging, 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

RCS is a pain: needs specific app and hidden ICC option, works unreliably2026-04-28
Texts to RCS contacts fail or get stuck; contacts cannot message the user2026-04-28
Options fold into a drop-down and carousels look like cards, hard to notice2026-01-21
RCS messages sometimes fail to deliver for hours and randomly switch to SMS2024-03-21
Predicted cross-app messaging needs many hoops, long delays and broken features2022-08-23