This ability to edit RCS — not SMS — is rolling out to stable starting today, but all the Google Messages users in a conversation need to have it enabled.
15 minute??
The Google-Way of doing things
Yet another W for Signal where you can edit indefinitely, and can look at the edit history. No context lost, no risk of modifying things after the fact
I’m not sure this is a fair comparison, since this is only coming to RCS and not SMS my (completely unsubstantiated) guess would be that this is a message protocol issue.
On the other hand Signal is an encrypted internet messaging service and editing internet messages has been easy for everyone not named twitter for years.
There are ways to do indefinite edits using message relationships
The edit message would simply refer to the message to be edited and contain the new content, or a delta/diff of the content. This would not need to be shown to the user in the UI
The reason it’s this fucked up is probably more because it’s yet another Google-Specific extension on top of RCS if I had to make a guess.
“Google Messages will note inline when something has been “Edited,” while the original message will be viewable by long-pressing the overflow menu > View details.”
If you know someone doesn’t read their messages right, you could fuck with them by sending responses unfiltered and filtered.
Example: “that’s a stupid idea” and editing it to “I’ll consider that”
Just know that they’ll see it, so only do with this with friendly trolling. Or just use it for typos. That’s probably safer.
Shouldn’t have any sign that it has been edited. Perfect gaslighting communicator. Google would finally have cornered a niche in messaging
I have had this conversation before, it’s a give and take. If it’s a simple typo, why say “Edited” - especially when most people can see it’s a typo. But when you are changing the context of the message, it should say “Edited” so when someone says “I said X not Y” to prove their point, but it says Edited.
I say keep it for typos.
