I've already posted this in various comments on other ideas, but I thought it would be better to consolidate it in one topic that can get voted on.

I've seen several requests to add integration of other protocols into Mightytext. I don't believe that is the right approach for future development. MightyText has a great potential as a protocol for SMS encapsulation. Here are my thoughts on it.

It shouldn't be the responsibility of Mightytext to connect with all other protocols. That would take too much of the developers time and effort only to replicate solutions that are already out there for such integration (ebuddy, IM+, ichat, empathy, pidgin, adium, ..etc) However, it would be a great advantage to Mightytext if they focus their efforts on solidifying the backend and publishing an API for other developers to adopt in their respective projects. Currently, there is no IM application (that I know of) that can send SMS to your contacts using YOUR phone number. There are currently apps that send SMS but they generate random source numbers which confuses the receiver on the other end. The use of your own personal already known phone number is a great advantage that Mightytext has over using the many other SMS solutions out that. The developers should not lose sight of their unique selling point and should focus on seizing the opportunity while it's still untouched. IMHO that's the niche market Mightytext would excel at.

I'm sure open source projects would rise to the task. Since today there are multitudes of ways for people to communicate, Mightytext could eventually become THR encapsulation/protocol for SMS messaging in already popular IM applications (Pidgin, empathy, adium,... etc)

As I type this I'm visualizing he great potential of growth if such an API would be released.

Summry:
Don't recreate solutions that already existant. Leave integration to IM apps developers. Develop the Mightytext protocol as an encapsulation of SMS messaging and publish an API. That's the route of greatest success.

Ali

Hello !
First, excellent app thank you very much for your work !

I think there is an issue here: whenever my phone is not connected to the Internet and I receive a text message, it does not appear in MightyText app (obviously).
The point is, when my phone finally catch internet (which is like 1 minute later) it does not sync up. If I ever receive another message or if I send one it will appear in the box but messages not synced will never be displayed (which lead to discussion with only me in the app, but on my phone I have the answers of my contact !).

I think we need an option to manually re-sync last texts msg (like, last 20 messages ?) or to be able to sync missing messages.
As it is right now, my mightytext app does not show all my messages but only those it managed to catch.

Thanks for your help !

The numbers of my contacts are all stored on the phone only. So I imagine that's why when I click the sync with google contacts it doesn't do anything all my text messages appear as a phone number only. There should be a way in the web app to add or change information on a certain conversation as I have to root through all the phone numbers and look at my previous conversations to figure out who it is. For that reason I use mightytext mostly for replying but I cannot really send off a conversation starting message as it is not super efficient.

Would be cool! Thanks! Otherwise I love the idea and the service!