Beeper has announced they are pivoting from being a company that hosts your messages and bridges to instead delivering an app that will directly connect to each of your messaging services, similar to how Texts.com works. The new app is currently only available for Android, with other platforms coming later.

What are your thoughts on this pivot?

previously a code could be used up to 5 times in a 24 hour period

Now: you can send two invites every seven days (source)

RIP people who are trying to get in…

I noticed that the Google Messages bridge seems to not be having issues for me anymore, is this universal or no? The bug was on Google's end, so I'm wondering if it's something that might still be affecting part of the userbase, especially since I haven't gotten an update for the Google Messages app

Here's the message Migicovsky sent about it yesterday:

Google Messages users - it appears that there is a bug in the actual Google Messages app that is causing the connection to be disconnected. We've tested with messages.google.com/web and it's affected in the same way. It looks like this bug was introduced very recently. At this point, we just hope that Google has noticed the bug in their own app and will fix it soon.