By keeping it open 24/7 do you mean that the app is actively taking screen space or is an unclosed app in the background? I hadn’t actually thought of not swiping the app away after refreshing the timer. And yeah I was looking at OpenWA as well but that’s for businesses.
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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 18 hours ago
I run continuwuity and the mautrix-whatsapp bridge. It’s not 100% reliable, but close enough for me. Especially after I moved it from the NAS in my basement to a VPS in some datacenter. I occasionally had some issues with my ISP doing maintenance, a power outage at home… I let WhatsApp run on my kitchen tablet 24/7 so it keeps that 14 day timer running. To my knowledge that’s unavoidable unless you switch WhatsApp Business or something.
Lemmert@reddthat.com 18 hours ago hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 18 hours ago
Background will do. I think even swiping it away is fine, as long as you don’t force-close it. Just pay attention there is some Play store or Aurora store doing automatic updates. I skipped on the updates and once WhatsApp hadn’t been updated for several months, they closed the connection.
- Lemmert@reddthat.com 18 hours ago
I do have a tablet I use as a glorified recipe book. So that might just do it. Thanks, you’ve been a huge help!
I actually mostly use Signal. I got my family to use Signal for a while, but they just ended up sending texts I did not strictly need to see on iMessage. Hence why we eventually settled on Whatsapp
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 18 hours ago
I wish my friends and family did the pre-screening of messages and their importance to me as well 😆
Haha. Yeah we have a seperate memechat (which went to iMessage in that Signal period) so I just have that one automatically muted on select hours of the day.