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SMS messaging
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 8 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Android-to-iPhone messages become slow SMS instead of iMessageUnreviewed
20102026- Messaging an iPhone user from Android gets slow, featureless SMS instead of iMessage2022-09-02
- Texting iPhone users from non-iPhone devices is hard; SMS is slow and degrades media2022-01-20
- SMS notifications are a poor experience compared with push notifications, lacking silencing and quick replies2021-06-14
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 8 complaints
- Videos and pictures sent via SMS come out with poor quality2023-11-16
- Gateway text messages became unreliable, so customers stopped receiving important notifications2023-10-21
- Messaging an iPhone user from Android gets slow, featureless SMS instead of iMessage2022-09-02
- Texting iPhone users from non-iPhone devices is hard; SMS is slow and degrades media2022-01-20
- SMS notifications are a poor experience compared with push notifications, lacking silencing and quick replies2021-06-14
- Clicking Free Trial sends new users to login page, adding an extra click2019-11-17
- SMS on Android is stuck on the phone, forcing awkward hoops to continue conversations on a computer2019-10-26
- Chat-style texts force recipients to read and dismiss each line separately2010-10-16