okay i think we figured it out! we made two text chains, one for "cousins only" and one for everybody including parents we're not super pleased with for whatever reason, and got the one PC user without a cell phone an email address hooked up to the everybody chat
Like at the next family thing where everyone is in the same space, get people set up with the app, numbers/contacts. In the info/profile section of their own number you could even keep a simple set of instructions for them to refer to.
okay idk if it’ll run but you could set them up with a discord lol (has good event organizing features but could see all the other features being maybe overbearing)
feel like so long as the old folks aren’t in charge of anything with the server and are just added in the chat it wouldn’t be too much of a curve but i could also be over simplifying it
but it’s not like it’s difficult to use, would just need to set up a text room but it will also run in a browser and on phones. so long as they aren’t joining servers willy nilly they shouldn’t have much of an issue
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You need to know their phone carrier. And for older folks I would set it all up as a contact in their address book. This article explains: https://www.sociocs.com/post/how-to-send-text-to-email/
Hope it helps!