Comment by simoncion

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one experiencing this Hangouts problem [0]. The lady friend thinks I'm nuts.

Speaking of SMS, when I lived in the American Southeast, I occasionally had SMS messages from friends be delivered months late.

Neither Hangouts nor SMS are the messaging systems of the future. :P If Signal (nee TextSecure) doesn't gain traction, maybe we need a super-sexy frontend over top of email.

[0] Looks like we were concurrently writing up our experiences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9267147