Do you have an ETA on the import chat history & RCS/SMS integration?
That is the one thing holding me back from defaulting to Beeper and subscribing past the trial. Beeper Mini imported a VERY small fraction of my conversations. I needed to start a new chat in Beeper Mini for most conversations, even with iPhone users such as my wife. Her phone has me coming through the same message thread in her iMessages, while I see a new conversation in Beeper and all of our old chats (going back 8 years) are in Google Messages (SMS/RCS).
While this is amazing progress and everything on this roadmap addresses most of the key concerns I have, there is still a MAJOR component holding me back from making this my default messaging app, which is none other than RCS support. Since Apple is adopting RCS, RCS needs to absolutely have just as much (if not more) focus than SMS/MMS, as it will become the new minimum standards for texting between people. In order for you to build the "ultimate messaging app", iMessage, RCS, and SMS/MMS needs to be under one single umbrella and all display into one single conversation per contact with priority in that order. Support for WhatsApp, Discord, Signal, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, and everything else can come later since we still have that functionality in Beeper Cloud. Successfully integrating and combining iMessage, RCS, & SMS/MMS seamlessly into one application is the winning ticket for winning over the North American market, since they are the biggest focus on this whole issue. Add RCS to this list as a priority, and I believe you'll win me over along with the rest of North America.
The biggest feature I'm now looking for is solid RCS support in Beeper Mini. With that, I'd make Beeper Mini my default messaging app on Android and would solidify things in a very positive way. WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc, are more afterthoughts to me personally. Second to that, I'd like a web version of Beeper Mini so I don't have to use my phone. Something like Google Messages has with messages.google.com
I wonder if the Beeper team will consider providing support for "Find My" queries. I believe there's already active open source development on this: https://github.com/biemster/FindMy
Does Beeper not share up in anyone else's share sheet? When I'm trying to share a link in Android through Beeper, I have to copy and paste the text of the link. Not the end of the world, but if this is a feature that needs built, just hoping it happens soon or if it's just my issue, at least I'll know lol.
I've been using beeper the last day or so and it's astonished my friends that have iPhones. If it can facetime as well this will be a massive game changer for me personally.
This is great news. I was part of that other texting company (☀️ 🐦) that recently screwed up before switching over to Beeper earlier this year. I've enjoyed using Beeper to text with everyone in my family that refuses to switch over to the smart side (Android). I plan on using Beeper Mini. I am curious how this new service will effect Apple finally getting RCS texting next year?
How does this affect the previous announcements of Beeper going free and Beeper Plus? Once Beeper Mini turns into just Beeper will it still continue to have the subscription fee? If so, is that covered by the 'free lifetime Beeper Plus' promised in that announcement?
Something that's not entirely clear to me from reading this post: when you say "Add Matrix support, and the other 10 non-encrypted chat networks into Beeper Mini", do you mean those 10 networks will be added as Matrix bridges (like it's already the case in Beeper Cloud) or independently from Matrix support?
The only suggestions that I'd have and be willing to pay a little bit more than $2 a month is support of dual sim. As it stands now, I have a work phone number and a personal phone number. Being able to use imessage, rcs, and sms/mms would be great.
So the beeper team is deleting comments that are not in 100% support of their new direction with Beeper Mini. That's nice to know. Censorship works best when it's committed by people who claim to be anti-censorship
Hi I have encountered an issue that when I use the beeper mini app on my phone to register my number to iMessage my Apple watch that is already have paired to my account stops getting message deliver this only happened after I use the Beeper mini app if I deregister and delete the app everything seems to get back to work so I don't know what type of interference is the app making
Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update
Do you have an ETA on the import chat history & RCS/SMS integration?
That is the one thing holding me back from defaulting to Beeper and subscribing past the trial. Beeper Mini imported a VERY small fraction of my conversations. I needed to start a new chat in Beeper Mini for most conversations, even with iPhone users such as my wife. Her phone has me coming through the same message thread in her iMessages, while I see a new conversation in Beeper and all of our old chats (going back 8 years) are in Google Messages (SMS/RCS).
While this is amazing progress and everything on this roadmap addresses most of the key concerns I have, there is still a MAJOR component holding me back from making this my default messaging app, which is none other than RCS support. Since Apple is adopting RCS, RCS needs to absolutely have just as much (if not more) focus than SMS/MMS, as it will become the new minimum standards for texting between people. In order for you to build the "ultimate messaging app", iMessage, RCS, and SMS/MMS needs to be under one single umbrella and all display into one single conversation per contact with priority in that order. Support for WhatsApp, Discord, Signal, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, and everything else can come later since we still have that functionality in Beeper Cloud. Successfully integrating and combining iMessage, RCS, & SMS/MMS seamlessly into one application is the winning ticket for winning over the North American market, since they are the biggest focus on this whole issue. Add RCS to this list as a priority, and I believe you'll win me over along with the rest of North America.
Another great thing would be the ability to name group chats.
The biggest feature I'm now looking for is solid RCS support in Beeper Mini. With that, I'd make Beeper Mini my default messaging app on Android and would solidify things in a very positive way. WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc, are more afterthoughts to me personally. Second to that, I'd like a web version of Beeper Mini so I don't have to use my phone. Something like Google Messages has with messages.google.com
I wonder if the Beeper team will consider providing support for "Find My" queries. I believe there's already active open source development on this: https://github.com/biemster/FindMy
Does Beeper not share up in anyone else's share sheet? When I'm trying to share a link in Android through Beeper, I have to copy and paste the text of the link. Not the end of the world, but if this is a feature that needs built, just hoping it happens soon or if it's just my issue, at least I'll know lol.
I've been using beeper the last day or so and it's astonished my friends that have iPhones. If it can facetime as well this will be a massive game changer for me personally.
okay what about self hosting instances of beeper? will that still be seeing support when beeper cloud is deprecated?
This is great news. I was part of that other texting company (☀️ 🐦) that recently screwed up before switching over to Beeper earlier this year. I've enjoyed using Beeper to text with everyone in my family that refuses to switch over to the smart side (Android). I plan on using Beeper Mini. I am curious how this new service will effect Apple finally getting RCS texting next year?
How does this affect the previous announcements of Beeper going free and Beeper Plus? Once Beeper Mini turns into just Beeper will it still continue to have the subscription fee? If so, is that covered by the 'free lifetime Beeper Plus' promised in that announcement?
Something that's not entirely clear to me from reading this post: when you say "Add Matrix support, and the other 10 non-encrypted chat networks into Beeper Mini", do you mean those 10 networks will be added as Matrix bridges (like it's already the case in Beeper Cloud) or independently from Matrix support?
The only suggestions that I'd have and be willing to pay a little bit more than $2 a month is support of dual sim. As it stands now, I have a work phone number and a personal phone number. Being able to use imessage, rcs, and sms/mms would be great.
So the beeper team is deleting comments that are not in 100% support of their new direction with Beeper Mini. That's nice to know. Censorship works best when it's committed by people who claim to be anti-censorship
Perhaps you can include this in xmpp.org
Hi I have encountered an issue that when I use the beeper mini app on my phone to register my number to iMessage my Apple watch that is already have paired to my account stops getting message deliver this only happened after I use the Beeper mini app if I deregister and delete the app everything seems to get back to work so I don't know what type of interference is the app making
Does this mean that Matrix Bridges to encrypted networks like WhatsApp will cease to be maintained once those are brought to the new architecture?
😭 That's how I get WhatsApp into Emacs!