I am really hoping this feature is being worked on or is something being prioritized. Would it really take that much code to implement?
It makes it hard for me to use voip.ms in a normal way with friends. I have to explain to them my entire setup and it seems strange and is alienating. I want to talk with people about “look at the savings with voip.ms” and not “yeah, sorry it doesn’t have this feature that everyone else can normally do".”
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is using a voip.ms number as a main personal number (for 12 years now), and is running into friction like this. It’s becoming harder and harder to participate in the world with a voip.ms phone number. (Including many issues that are beyond voip.ms’s control, such as how many companies are becoming distrustful of VoIP numbers, and refusing to allow use of them.) The lack of proper group texts is an impediment not just for communicating with friends, but with vendors/contractors/etc. who seem to increasingly take for granted that they can loop in others as needed.
I may soon need to port my main number back to a regular mobile provider just to deal with the world. Though it would certainly be sad and annoying to lose the many powerful voip.ms features I use. 