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They should probably fix this. Last week, the girl I've been dating, who I'm incidentally crazy about, admitted via text she was in love with me...

... I never replied because I didn't get the message.

She definitely felt awkward for a while when I saw her, wondering why I had chosen to just ignore that specific text.

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I'm often amazed by how quickly things get messed up if a single message is dropped from a conversation. People really expect communication channels like these to never fail.

My co-hacker and I have a solution for IM conversations that we love: http://yootles.com/nims

I'm starting to understand that things will always potentially fail... But when you're paying over $100/month for service on a device that you paid $200+ for, I think you have the right to expect it to work.

They need to fix this or come up with a new method that pings back to a server when successfully received to signal success. (or something along these lines)

The amazing part of this anecdote is that she didn't declare this to you in person.

Alcohol was slightly involved, otherwise I imagine it would've been a bit different.

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