For the last few months, the app has randomly stopped communicating with server and gets stuck on "connecting" until I reset my phone network. As of today, it stopped being recognized as an SMS app on my android phone and no longer appears in the list of possible default messenging apps, resetting my default to Messages app instead. Hope this gets fixed soon, Facebook Messenger has been my favorite and default app for years, it's puzzling Meta can't figure out a fix quickly.
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