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by jtsiskin 910 days ago
People use “green bubbles” to just mean “no guaranteed delivery or delivery receipts, no read receipts, very low quality image and videos, bad support for reactions, threaded replies, and group chats”.

…the color isn’t the problem. It’s shorthand for the real underlying issues

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The color is a big part of the problem, white on green is one of the hardest to read because of the distribution of color cone cells in our retinas. Only maybe white on yellow would be worse.
Dark mode is the way to go anyway.
What color combo does plain sms get there?
Other person is white text on black background. Yours is white text on green background. The app's background is also black.