RCS

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with RCS, 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 11 complaints

Emacs integration aborts unless a workaround package is installed2026-05-04
Each emoji reaction arrives as a separate, verbose message quoting the whole original message2026-03-02
Typing ci on a source file silently renamed it and inserted garbage, unlike the expected editor2026-02-09
Business RCS messages behave unexpectedly and their layout and alignment look wrong2026-01-21
Messages are seriously delayed in low signal, and the user can't tell they aren't going through2025-11-19
RCS group chats are a broken mess on Android, hard to rely on2025-11-19
RCS turned on without consent, forcing user to hunt for setting to disable it2025-11-19
RCS is enabled for a contact sometimes but not other times, and sends slowly2024-12-11
Constant prompts push users to click yes to enable RCS2024-04-19
Others can't check in changes while a file is checked out, without asking the holder2024-04-06
RCS messaging failed to work between two Android phones2022-08-10