Chat / Text App (not glassboard)

[Daviid]

Whatsapp ? LOL
Skype?

[Harrypt63]

line is great

[Freakimus]

We use and love Palringo.

[ALG]

Leaning toward Band.
Being able to comment on a thread is great.
And a separate place for live chat.

Agree though, the phone number req is not good.

[TheConfuzed1]

GroupMe

It's free, cross-platform, and doesn't have the restrictions of Kik.

[MattJM9]

My clan uses the app WeChat. You can have up to 100 people in a group.

[cottoninthewoods]

When you join a group in band you have the option to hide you phone number. The admin can also set it to "hide" by default

[stevo]

We did a big review of quite a few of them and settled on band. Got kicked off gb recently. So had to make a change

[mountaindrew]

In the past we've used Kik, Groupme, gb, Hangouts, and now we're using BAND. It is by far the best one we've tried so far, many more features than other apps.

[Terraist]

We are on GB now as well so have to look elsewhere. Any suggestions or preferred sites that DON'T require a phone number for account activation. Believe it or not, I don't own a phone of any kind, and some of our other members refuse to give out their phone details online (as would I).

Cheers!