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Originally Posted by MiRee446
Thoughts on the new Google messenger app? Evolve and textra still the favorites here?
I like the labels they use similar to how gmail now looks. Easier to scan through threads and know who was talking, especially if you're looking for a very particular message. For instance I was looking for a password someone sent me for something, but I had like 500 messages from them so it was near impossible to find without kinda reading everything. But with the color coded message blocks my eyes were better adept to catching what the sender was saying and completely tuning out my own responses. That extra bit of visual separation really helps in comparison to just having one message box/bubble on the left and one box/bubble on the right.
I also like that it is a dedicated SMS app. I dont use Hangouts messaging feature, I just use it for SMS, so whenever I want to send a new SMS to someone it always asks "SMS or Hangouts?" which is annoying.
The quick insert of photos and audio clips also makes me more likely to use these features than before. Even though it's still just attaching as an MMS, it's integrated better.
I dont like the extra clicks you have to go through to ignore somebody, but since you only have to do that once it's not really a hassle. I could just see someone missing it the first time through if there's a particular contact they dont want to get notifications for.