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Comment by throwawayaway

11 years ago

i've had limited success, one factor that helped was me going cold turkey on the alternatives. also you define your own success, gaining a monopoly is rather a high standard!

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simoncion  11 years ago

We apparently have quite different friends. Removing myself from Hangouts means that I get information either in person, or through email, if at all.

I'm currently relying on the Signal rework of TextSecure to get most of us off of Hangouts: the big barrier to adoption has been easy-to-configure clients that work on Android, iOS, and desktop and sync message history amongst clients.

  • 72deluxe  11 years ago

    I have the same experience with not being signed into chat networks, or not having Facebook / WhatsApp / Twitter etc. etc. accounts. People either don't tell me anything, or they email.

    The craziest thing I get asked is "Do you have WhatsApp? I can send you pictures, and it's FREE!". Oddly the thought of sending an email with a picture attached (how easy is it on a phone these days??) doesn't pop into their mind as being "free" either!!! Insane! Email is far superior, as I can archive it unlike IM history.

    • simoncion  11 years ago

      > Email is far superior...

      nod nod

      I mention in another thread that if Signal (nee TextSecure) doesn't take off, perhaps what we need is a super-sexy frontend on top of SMTP and IMAP.

      > ...Do you have WhatsApp?...

      The thing that really gets me going is the folks who will only send pictures with MMS.

  • throwawayaway  11 years ago

    web client xmpp isn't going to be very good at storing message history, i'll grant you.

    • simoncion  11 years ago

      Yep. You'd need a server somewhere to store and replay that message history. There is an XMPP standard that specifies how to do that. Question is whether or not your client can speak that protocol.

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