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Starting a hangout often works for me, but I rarely get notification messages. Sometimes it takes half an hour or more to get a notification that was sent by so
by JoshMnem 11y ago
Starting a hangout often works for me, but I rarely get notification messages. Sometimes it takes half an hour or more to get a notification that was sent by someone in the same room. I switched to SMS for IMs, because people don't get the Hangouts messages reliably.
Hangouts could be good, but it's awful at the moment. I wish they had at least kept the XMPP integration. I strongly suspect that Google would be more successful if they went back to a more open approach. If they had backed Diaspora rather than creating Google Plus, it would now be huge. Google Plus didn't even have a decent API. I have a lot of ideas on how to salvage it, but no one at Google has ever responded to my suggestions.
- agumonkey 11y agoIn the list of unreliable messaging, Skype Android app has been nicely random in how it notifies me too. I can never know if someone talked or not. They keep changing the UI though, how touching. ps: I believe all your points on xmpp/diaspora are right, and that's how Google got popular, bringing good product (mail, maps) for free. Not trying to invent a whole G paradigm because Jobs said 'focus' in an Apple keynote.
- JoshMnem 11y agoThe Skype app for Android and Linux were so bad that I stopped using Skype completely. I thought that Hangouts was going to be a perfect replacement, but the notifications became too unreliable. If anyone from Google is reading my comments, and would like ideas on how to fix it, send me a message. I do want Hangouts to work. :)
- agumonkey 11y agoThese things are just parking users with Minimally Viable UX. I thought you were working at Google.. have you had contact with them before ?
- JoshMnem 11y agoI don't work there -- I meant that I've sent messages to specific people there via Google Plus. The UI problems are a constant frustration for me.