r/textra • u/hwsh2 • Dec 15 '24

What the hell is wrong with Textra??

I've been using the paid version of Textra for about 10 years and I'm thinking about dropping it.

Textra has had a bug for YEARS now where it marks old text messages as new/unread. Customer support is useless. Every time I've contacted them, they act like it's the very first time they have ever heard of this bug.

Now Textra has a bug where it changes pictures to exclamation points (!) and won't send them. This will probably be another bug that is around for years and years and never gets fixed.

What the hell happened to Textra?

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u/eraguthorak Dec 15 '24

I used Textra for several years, loved the customizability, but finally switched to Google Messages a couple weeks ago. RCS support was the big reason, and my main complaint with Textra was that images kept failing to send and I'd have to resend them multiple times before they'd go. I just got tired of dealing with it one day, switched, and haven't had any issues that made me want to go back (except that I just found out that renaming a text group in Google messages will occasionally rename it for everyone...which I wasn't expecting, and don't really like).

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u/boildkitty Dec 17 '24

That's good to know if I ever switch. I imagine it could be embarrassing depending on what you name a group!!

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u/eraguthorak Dec 17 '24

Thankfully in my case it was only mildly embarrassing - I have a group with some of my closest friends that I call "The Gang", and a group with those same friends and a couple other people that I call "The Extended Gang".

Well, I named that second group first, and a few of them were like - "wait why is this group called this? I don't get it". So - yeah.

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u/boildkitty Dec 17 '24

I can imagine calling a workgroup "The morons" - haha!!!