I tinkered with the hangouts API a year or so ago, and got an e-mail from Google last week about it being discontinued. So not really 'quietly', they notified p

I tinkered with the hangouts API a year or so ago, and got an e-mail from Google last week about it being discontinued. So not really 'quietly', they notified people who were using it by e-mail. On a side note, the API was so broken, badly documented and useless that when we evaluated embedding an app into hangouts it just seemed as a half-arsed effort by Google to expose an API, and it was clear that they didn't really want people building apps inside hangouts. which is a shame, it seemed as a nice platform to extend with collab tools. I'm not at all surprised this got pulled.