For what it's worth, Facebook's Messenger Lite app is really light on bloat, although it's not officially available in the US.

Interesting - hadn't heard of that one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.m...

>This app is incompatible with all of your devices.

:'( Why do they feel this is a useful thing to do?

Not available in Australia either - I guess there's always apkmirror.

I'm always surprised people use WhatsApp at all. It consistently puts messages out of order or doesn't include them all together.

Granted, this is mostly me using it from the web ui, but it happens almost once a session.

edit: I'm not knocking it specifically, just saying i'm surprised it's so popular - for me it has common issues with basic functionality (above).

Here in brazil, people use whatsapp because of the MASSIVE network effect.

FTFY: Time to move to Wire I guess.

Time to move to [new flavour of the month messaging app]

The hard thing to do is to make other people change to or install your new IM as well.