I thought it would be useful to have one general thread for messaging apps, rather than separately discussing them all.
This update to WhatsApp looks really promising
We use WhatsApp for various community groups. To be honest it’s really poorly suited for this (compared to something like Telegram), but ultimately everyone is on it.
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Admin delete looks useful, I am an admin of a 120+ WhatsApp group would love to move them to telegram or discord for bot automation but got nowhere.
Unfortunately, have to go where the people are, but looks a promising update.
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Alexxxxx
(>50 categories pls)
21 April 2022 23:11
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Also very intrigued.
If the communities / sub-groups feature works in a similar way to Sphere’s implementation (which it sounds like) then I think I will be very happy.
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simonb
(Simon B)
22 April 2022 11:43
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There may even be a Sphere employee working on it
(About 22 of 30 of us went to Twitter).
With where everyone else has landed and at least two other startups being formed, they might call us the “Sphere Mafia” in years to come
I hope WhatsApp does well with this. More Communities projects is never a bad thing and a rising tide lifts all ships.
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davidwalton
(Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)
22 April 2022 19:30
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This brings back post-kung-fu-kick Eric Cantona memories for me for some reason.
Seagulls…
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simonb
(Simon B)
23 April 2022 14:43
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Ha, I was just talking about that with my niece and her partner the other day. Remember seeing that all happen live
I was actually thinking about this over the weekend, when my iMessage chat with a friend started showing green bubbles as he’s on holiday and doesn’t have data.
N26throwaway:
They’re ugly. They don’t convey their meaning in a simple way and can be confusing to understand.
I much prefer what messages does where it simply says delivered below the message, and changes to read if someone with read receipts enabled reads it.
No rant about it being end to end secured across platforms (plus backups)?
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simonb
(Simon B)
26 October 2022 17:26
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Spam alert @AlanDoe
weird that i can’t flag posts any more
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simonb
(Simon B)
26 October 2022 17:32
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Must be that, I literally don’t have the option showing.
I thought I still checked in pretty often, wonder what got me bumped down to Level 2
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I waste way too much time on here not to be a level three. Not impressed
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Revels
26 October 2022 19:50
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Simon is definitely more trusted than me.
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davidwalton
(Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)
26 October 2022 20:39
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I 'd that. Not because I think you’re less trusted. But Simon…
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simonb
(Simon B)
27 October 2022 08:35
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It was a mistake, @cookywook has kindly fixed it now
So, about those, um, messaging apps, am I right?
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It’s normally the regulars who do the flagging
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Na I could never see who flagged but I could guess just by reading the posts who and why
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simonb
(Simon B)
27 October 2022 16:28
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I could always see who flagged, but I was an admin, so perhaps it wasn’t the case for mods.
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