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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It was already a challenge back in those days. I ran the Nokia N9 for a while, and within a year it went from being amazing at messaging due to its messaging app mixing different XMPP providers in one interface (Google Talk, Facebook Messenger, SMS, etc in a single interface) to everyone in the industry suddenly giving up on that and only supporting in-app messaging.

    There were valiant attempts to create open source versions of popular apps, but those efforts were always intentionally sabotaged by those providers.











  • Yeah, I have the same issue with WhatsApp. I have a group with my wife and parents that my parents just called myfirstname/wifefirstname, which makes no sense to us (on our end we’d like to call it ‘jonne’s parents’ or whatever).

    Same with any other group chat we’d like to start that includes a tradie or whatever.

    I’m sure it’s fun for your average plumber to have 50 different group chats with clients that are all called ‘plumber’.