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The only benefit I see out of this is the removal of SMS support in the Hangouts Android app. I like my communication channels separate. I don't like Hangouts o

by cpburns2009 10y ago

The only benefit I see out of this is the removal of SMS support in the Hangouts Android app. I like my communication channels separate. I don't like Hangouts or Facebook Messenger wanting to control my cell phone messages (SMS). This might be a naive question, but will chat within Gmail still work? Is that chat provided by Talk or Hangouts?

smt88 10y ago
> I like my communication channels separate. You could always keep them separate, if you wanted to. This feature was totally invisible to people who left it turned off. I personally want to have all my messaging in one place, which used to be possible. Now everything is fragmented, and I constantly have to remember how each person in my life prefers to communicate, open the right app, find their name, and then message them. It's incredibly frustrating to have a worse 2017 messaging experience than I did in 2007 with my BlackBerry. > This might be a naive question, but will chat within Gmail still work? Is that chat provided by Talk or Hangouts? Chat in Gmail is Hangouts.
- Chaebixi 10y ago
  > Now everything is fragmented, and I constantly have to remember how each person in my life prefers to communicate, open the right app I think this is true to an extent, but I think messaging isn't as simple "get this text to this person." Different communications channels have different contexts, implied importance, etc. Making them too unified papers over and confuses those social differences. For instance, it would be super weird if a coworker texted me instead of IM'd me about some everyday work thing.
  - jooize 10y ago
    We should solve that within the same protocol. Allow multiple named conversation streams for any combination of contacts with an interface to filter them (private, work, dating, family). I also want priority of messages to let the receiver handle them differently (low/normal/high). Default ‘normal’ and changeable within reach, but quite invisible. Anyone can then let me write a ‘high’ priority message that makes noise in the middle of the night, or if I suspect they're resting and I want to send a cat picture I'll use ‘low’.
angryasian 10y ago
you're probably in the minority. When you look at the popularity of imessage and one of the big reasons people complain about allo is that there was no fallback.

smt88 10y ago

> I like my communication channels separate. You could always keep them separate, if you wanted to. This feature was totally invisible to people who left it turned off. I personally want to have all my messaging in one place, which used to be possible. Now everything is fragmented, and I constantly have to remember how each person in my life prefers to communicate, open the right app, find their name, and then message them. It's incredibly frustrating to have a worse 2017 messaging experience than I did in 2007 with my BlackBerry. > This might be a naive question, but will chat within Gmail still work? Is that chat provided by Talk or Hangouts? Chat in Gmail is Hangouts.

Chaebixi 10y ago
> Now everything is fragmented, and I constantly have to remember how each person in my life prefers to communicate, open the right app I think this is true to an extent, but I think messaging isn't as simple "get this text to this person." Different communications channels have different contexts, implied importance, etc. Making them too unified papers over and confuses those social differences. For instance, it would be super weird if a coworker texted me instead of IM'd me about some everyday work thing.
- jooize 10y ago
  We should solve that within the same protocol. Allow multiple named conversation streams for any combination of contacts with an interface to filter them (private, work, dating, family). I also want priority of messages to let the receiver handle them differently (low/normal/high). Default ‘normal’ and changeable within reach, but quite invisible. Anyone can then let me write a ‘high’ priority message that makes noise in the middle of the night, or if I suspect they're resting and I want to send a cat picture I'll use ‘low’.

angryasian 10y ago

you're probably in the minority. When you look at the popularity of imessage and one of the big reasons people complain about allo is that there was no fallback.