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In today’s digital media, any post where a person admits they were wrong deserves an upvote regardless of the subject.



It has the MessagEase layout supported as well.


Well, quite easily because the amount of irritation that this move caused greatly exceeded the benefits of the product. Even if typing on mobile is now somewhat clunkier and more taxing mentally whether using thumb-key or Gboard.


Yeah… It could’ve been one solution because in practice the app was pretty much unmaintained anyway.


Ok, I think this has some way to go still. Compared to MessagEase quite a bit of features are missing (the combine button which gives instant access to a whole lot of special characters, many settings, also do I have to press # to access numbers, etc). That said, I’ll keep this installed and hopefully contribute to its development if I can.


Definitely not a con! Now testing thumb-key and it seems quite promising. Just need to get a Finnish layout (or umlauts) going…


Thanks, but these seem they’re adhering to Gboard experience rather than MessagEase.


Actually I just found out about thumb-key that seems to fit the bill perfectly. In theory at least.


MessagEase going subscription based
![MessagEase subscription popup](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/aa5441a0-d150-4d8c-80e7-5f43281c1f4a.jpeg) This popped up today on my phone when casually tapped on a text field. As a long ass time MessagEase user this makes me sad. Even though it has its issues, it's also been pretty much unbeatable when you need to type text on Android without looking using only one thumb. Looks like MessagEase Pro subscription fee is 1,09€/month. Not that much but no thanks. Enshittification spreads. As a FLOSS enthusiast I've always dreaded this sort of thing when using "free" proprietary products. Anyhow, do I have to go back to Gboard or are there any free/oss alternatives around to replace MessagEase with?
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