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#QUIK SMS is kinda perfect now, but there's one leeeeeeetle feature I do occasionally miss from the proprietary SMS program I was using:

It did a best-effort attempt to interpret those idiotic "Liked 'I am the very model of a modern major general...'" messages you get from iPhones and would just stick an emoji next to the associated message, rather than display the completely pointless message.

Of course, it couldn't do it for photos, only for text. And I'm guessing if there was more than one message in the chat that had almost the same text (such that the quoted part would be non-unique), it probably would've failed there, too.

So, minor sad on that one, but QUIK is actually better in a lot of ways, such as its ability to archive/hide messages (conversation) you're done with without deleting them.

That of course means that I could theoretically practice #InboxZero with my text messages.

Someday, guys. Someday. XD

#PSA: the #QUIK #SMS [app] has been updated, and it's way better than before.

I used to have problems with it because the pictures it sent via #MMS were of far poorer quality than the other programs I tried (including the #AOSP default Messaging app), but they seem to have fixed that.

They also have added a nice big button to trigger your phone's native dictation service (you can turn that off if you don't want it, or don't have one).

It has successfully replaced the proprietary SMS program I was using before, which makes me quite glad.

f-droid.orgQUIK SMS | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryOpen source replacement to the stock SMS app on Android. A revival of QKSMS.

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.

I tried using #PulseSMS for a little bit today, because I remember liking it back in 2018 when I actually paid for the service.

I downloaded it and disabled its networking access immediately through #CalyxOS' firewall.

Even though it wasn't able to download ads, it still had blank ad banners, pop-up "buy premium!" screens and premium feature teasers like a thumbs-up icon next to the most recently received text with some small text saying something like "Try reactions!" (which sends you to the TRY PREMIUM! page.

This is without any internet access. It's all just hard-coded into the app.
I don't have a problem with these guys charging for their app, or charging a REASONABLE subscription fee for the service (being able to send SMS through any web browser), but man, apps in 2024 are just SO horrid. :'(

The state of SMS in the FOSS world is still pretty bad.
I either have to live with flip-flopping between #AOSP Messages and #QUIK for the features I need, or whack a great deal of my #SMS history in order to reduce the db size so that #Fossify messages can run reasonably well without burning up my battery.

Ok, sorry for complaining. I'm thankful for #FOSS. :D