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I ache for the old GTalk windows application. Tiny, lightweight, standalone, and simple. Very Unix, really.

• StavrosK 11y ago
  I ache for the old GTalk Android application too. Also very Unix, then Google had to go and be all walled-garden. I hate how I have to have three separate IM clients, each with its own half-baked implementation on at least one platform, just so I can talk to all my friends. Too bad corporate interests are against openness. I really would have liked it if all services were interoperable with one another.
  • Nullabillity 11y ago
    Their Android application still didn't support federated contacts even when it was based on XMPP.
    • chimeracoder 11y ago
      > Their Android application still didn't support federated contacts even when it was based on XMPP If I remember correctly, it did, and then they removed the feature. They claim it was due to spam, but really, there are a number of ways to solve that problem without removing the feature entirely (ranging from better spam-prevention heuristics to requiring an explicit opt-in). Hangouts is in all ways inferior to Google Talk. It's really a shame.
• wnevets 11y ago
  it was probably the best ui google has done with the exception of their home page.
• edpichler 11y ago
  Oh yes, the old GTalk was a really good software. I think the best messenger app I used, ever.