I notice that a year later, Pinephones still can't do MMS - is there a specific bounty we can throw money into to support and encourage developers who work on this?
@rose_myrtle
You need to buy two or more friends for each developer. As SMS works fine for the average developer's communication pattern, he'll never get to MMS naturally.
@rose_myrtle
I imagine @martijnbraam would know
@everlastingrocks @rose_myrtle there are multiple issues with MMS support, one of the major ones being that MMS is geographically in another area as most developers are. I can't work on it because it just isn't a thing here.
The other issue is that the technical implementation of mms is kinda horrible. Some people have made implementations that work though and currently in the slow process of upstreaming it to the 10 projects in the tech stack to glue it all together
@daniel @everlastingrocks @rose_myrtle outside of the US everyone seems to have switched to telegram/signal/whatsapp/smoke signals
Are no developers interested in implementing this or are they hindered by high prices in their countries and lack of other participants for testing?
@daniel @everlastingrocks @rose_myrtle well for me MMS just doesn't work, not supported by the providers. maybe if I get another package from of the worldwide provider it might exist. There are some developers that actually are working on it, don't think money will make the process go any faster since it's just a lot of coordination between various projects to make it work
@everlastingrocks That's a very cynical take.
Surely a cash bounty would get *someone*'s attention who could do it?
Is there not already a bounty program for FOSS software where people can put stuff like, "if someone writes x feature for y software, i'll throw $50 their way" and others can pile on and make it bigger if they care?