Minor detail…
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We could always move to Indonesia… No big deal.
But aren’t we already moving to North Korea to avoid developer verification?
Mabye we can make a petition against this
If anything petition the networks to bring some sort of free SMS API tier.
But then we have the cross networks issue
Can Everyone sign here
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@Shalom_Karr and @everyone who has big GroupMe me chats please post this
Post this
Groupme wants to stop their sms system this will effect this chat other chats and most people with a flip phone who doesn’t have the app MEANING GROUPME CHATS THAT WORK THROUGH TEXTS WILL BE DISCOUNTED to combat this us flipphone users are making a petition against this please sign the petition here Petition · Keep GroupMe SMS service running - United States · Change.org
You realize this won’t help you. Right? They aren’t discontinuing it for the reason they posted (no one uses it). It’s the opposite. Too many people use it and it costs them too much with no return. They’re a business and made a simple logical business decision.
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True but it’s there way of getting people to the app. Also it’s still worth a shot
I’m experimenting with using a dedicated Android device and a server. If it works well I can add a bunch more devices but I would have to figure out a way to make some money off of it for it to be worth running. I was thinking of setting up a VoIP system but the rules about SMS these days are crazy.
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I once set up something like that! Just for myself and for testing purposes. I had everything working at the end. A very long time ago
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I’ve researched this topic before. A few notes:
Why won’t GroupMe continue this/can we make them continue it (obviously not)? This never made any sense for them. They were literally paying millions of dollars, probably tens of millions of dollars a year, for absolutely no reason. This was a ticking time bomb. I’m surprised it lasted this long.
Can we set up some alternative for SMS messages? Yes if you’d like but it’s going to cost you a lot. Just the carrier fees themselves cost about a half a cent per SMS segment. This means that if someone on a group chat with a hundred people sends out “Does anyone have eggs I can borrow?” it will cost $0.50 just from carrier fees. Any platform is adding their own fees onto this, which will be about another half a cent and that costs you $1 for that one simple message.
Can I do this on an Android phone with a cheap plan? Carriers work extremely hard to make sure that you’re not doing this. Even if you try to send out the messages in a random manner, not blasting them all out at once, they have many other ways of detecting this. For example high rates of outbound messages with the same or similar content with very low reply rates. I’d be surprised if you’d last on a large scale doing something like this for more than a few days. Can you have your little neighborhood chat with 20 people? Maybe but anything big is going to get caught.
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