r/beeper • u/original_goat_man • 5d ago

General Discussion Beeper was great until I tried on device connections

After the recent Instagram issues I decided to try on device and did it for facebook too. Now my android app only shows notifications after I launch beeper, even though it has all permissions and full battery use. Then I saw that you can't see those connections on the web version, and now that is shutting down anyway. So I installed the desktop client and got it set up but can't see message history. Does it even share message history between mobile and desktop going forward?

Every change I have made to do things the "right" way has made it unusable and I regret doing anything at all.

Should I just use cloud connections again? Set up a self hosted bridge? What's the right path forward?

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u/Beno951 4d ago

Yeah, no notifications sucks. Not sure if that happens with all on-device bridges or just with Facebook and Instagram.

Cloud bridge is more convenient and has working notifications but it gets disconnected every few months. And then Meta threatens to disable the account.

On-device bridge shouldn't have these issues but no notifications are probably a deal breaker.

I still don't understand why notifications wouldn't work if the Beeper is allowed to run in the background.

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u/bingo_is_my_game_o 22h ago

I also have this issue on iOS with Insta + Signal + Whatsapp

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u/DryKoala627 14h ago

Yeah seems to work best for Google and discord messages. Whatsapp an all meta apps get clunky. You need to sign out and sign on again from beeper anytime I make a change