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I've been using the beautiful #qksms app on Android for a while now. It works quite well but I have a little quibble¹ and upstream is abandoned.

Turns out there is a "revival" fork, called #quik. The issue tracker on GitHub doesn't exactly inspire confidence (many open, serious sounding bugs). Has anyone tried it? Is it good?

¹) When sending an SMS fails (happens frequently, cause I have bad reception), I don't get notified and there is no auto-retry.

Fellow and enthusiasts, lately has been failing to send images to my contacts so I have, unfortunately, fallen back to G-Messages for communication. Due to this, I'm thinking of hosting my own server to use for my own personal communications with bridges for G-Messages and SMS since that's primarily what my contacts use. However, I'm not entirely sure if the work is worth it just for little ol' me (and maybe my partner). Thoughts? Experiences?

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@kat Indeed. Also: most SMS I get are from companies (e.g. the post office) and I was happy to see these in #Signal rather than in Google's #SMS app, which keeps harassing me so that I send them more personal data (every single time it's launched).

Now I switched to #QKSMS which seems good. Having to switch to yet another app in order to handle SMS securely doesn't improve anything.
f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mo

f-droid.orgQKSMS | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryMessaging app
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@ls Ja es ist irgendwie ein offener Standard, aber ziemlich kompliziert. Es gibt für die Open Source Messaging-App #QKSMS ein Issue auf Github: https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms/issues/1522

Von Simple SMS, gibt's auch ein Issue: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-SMS-Messenger/issues/157

Zusammenfassung, was ich so raus gelesen habe: Viele wünschen sich das Feature, aber seit vielen Jahren kam keine Umsetzung zustande, weil #RCS super komplex ist, eventuell hat Google da doch noch einen API Freipunkt nicht frei geschalten bzw. Teile von RCS sind noch offen, sondern closed.

Naja und wenn ich ehrlich bin, sieht's auch nicht gerade so aus, als ob RCS im Aufwind ist. Sämtliche Telekommunikations-Anbieter ziehen sich eher daraus zurück, wenn man dem Wikipedia-Artikel glauben kann.

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DESCRIPTION A short description of the issue. Example: Conversations aren't marked as read when they are opened from a notification. STEPS Steps to reproduce the issue. EXPECTED Describe the expect...
GitHubSupport RCS API (if available) · Issue #1522 · moezbhatti/qksmsBy miladmaz12
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Some personal preferences for and -friendly apps, services, etc. (desktop and Android), in case anyone is interested.

- Notes: Nextcloud Notes, / Posteo + ImapNotes3
- Tasks: Tasks . org, Nextcloud Tasks + Evolution/Thunderbird
- Sync (contacts, calendars, tasks): @davx5app
- Podcast: (by @y20k), @AntennaPod
- RSS: Nextcloud News + FeedReader or Communique
- Radio: Radiotray-NG, or
- SMS:
- Read later: @wallabag@social.tcit.fr