Google voice has a 160 character limit, and I have to say, there is nothing on planet earth that I find more annoying than to receive a single sms message broken down into multiple parts. Things get even more aggravating when a given word is itself broken down so that the first message would say something like this:
"... Things get even more aggr" and the second message would say would then say:
"avating when a given word gets broken down..."Not only that; I have received broken SMS messages from AT&T customers where the second part of the message arrives first and the first arrives second. Thus, following the example above, I would first get
"avating when a given word gets broken down..." then I would get
"... Things get even more aggr" This doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen, and it's just somewhat disturbing.
When I first saw this thread, I was shocked to read this:
Chris wrote:We bounced this idea around before, but shot it down because long messages were automatically broken down into multiples.
because BlackSwan is one of the most (if not the most) well-thought-out apps I've ever seen, and given my experience with those annoying broken SMS messages, I thought a character count would be the first thing to pop into the engineer's head (like before the commencement of the developing cycle and all). I was thinking along the lines of
"OMG I can never ever EVER let myself send an SMS message that would be broken down in the middle like that. That would be sooooo digustsing. Eww! Eww! Ugh". But alas, there was no character count to prevent OCD SMS maniacs like myself from doing so. We're all different
That said, I'm extremely pleased with BlackSwan. Thanks for your hard work guys. Keep it up!