Why “RCS” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
> This is a very US-centric (and maybe Canada) thing though? If what you say about “the rest of the world” using other messaging apps is true, then yeah, it probably is North Am…
by bentley · Sep 7, 2026
Suppose GrapheneOS becomes highly popular. Then I have to fight the average Joe who insists RCS is fine enough. I understood from other comments that RCS is the default communic…
by exceptione · Sep 7, 2026
SMS was a huge success. For a standard that was defined in 1986 and first rolled out in 1992, it had good longevity and was extremely popular from its introduction until ~2010 […
by microtonal · Sep 7, 2026
All carriers I've tried in my country have even disabled MMS entirely. They're not running RCS servers either, though, everyone is on WhatsApp anyway. In theory carriers could i…
by jeroenhd · Sep 7, 2026
RCS is an extension of SMS and has quite literally been "SMS but more capable" from the start. The protocol on the wire looks a lot like MMS over LTE. Registration and communica…
by jeroenhd · Sep 7, 2026
> In the longer term, we plan to add support for RCS including support for the standard end-to-end encryption (E2EE) via Messaging Layer Security (MLS). Currently, RCS including…
by yellowapple · Sep 7, 2026
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