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Edit: after reading the explanation in the community forum linked here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33181636

I have instead come around to support this move 200% and have instead doubled my monthly subscription. The explanation at the blog post is an abomination, however.

Leave SMS and all its shitty successors for Apple and Google and carriers to kill/maintain.

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Holy crap you weren't kidding!

The blog post needs to be shelved and redone as every listed reason feels post hoc while the reasons listed at that link ([1] for anyone who dislikes friction) are grounded in reality and show Signal being proactive.

[1]: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...

Its more understandable, but its still a major headache for those of us not forced into google's RCS walled garden.

What about the issue it mentions of replies to SMS coming over RCS and never arriving in SMS apps? I'm inclined to agree with the assessment that all 3rd-party SMS on Android are toast. Eventually only the device's/carrier's stock messanger will be reliable.

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