> Don't take my word too heavily, as this was just what I saw in a quick test with one Gmail account of my own. XMPP support with Hangouts is currently very, v

> Don't take my word too heavily, as this was just what I saw in a quick test with one Gmail account of my own. XMPP support with Hangouts is currently very, very weird. Even though they shut down the old Google Talk service, and they say everywhere that Hangouts and XMPP don't mix, I'm still able to sign in to the service using XMPP (via Pidgin) and communicate with other Gmail users. No federation here, just directly signing in. I'm waiting for it to eventually just stop working, just as MSN kept their servers alive for a while after their formal end of support announcement and the Skype transition...