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It isn't what is wrong with Hangouts so much as it is a list of things we like about Slack: 1) Channels - each message has a home. Notifications can be set to t

It isn't what is wrong with Hangouts so much as it is a list of things we like about Slack: 1) Channels - each message has a home. Notifications can be set to the correct level. 2) APIs/Integrations - We hook it up to github, pivotal, new relic, AWS and some of our own custom hooks. Reminders, alerts, messages - whatever we dream up that needs to be done and it is open enough to do it. 3) History 4) Past an image right in it without saving it as a file. 5) Voice calls. Right now Hangouts is only for meetings where we want to share a screen or video chat. Most of the time a voice call is enough.

netzone 9y ago
Have you looked into Discord? Not sure about their Linux availability, but it can do all of the above, also voice channels. They don't have video/screen share right now but it's apparently something they're working on. It's also more free than Slack. That might not be a good thing though, since it's unclear if $5 monthly will be able to support them over time.
kyrra 9y ago
Hangouts Chat / Meet [0] brings a lot, if not all, of this when it comes out. Meet keeps most of what hangouts video has today, but a better UI and uses hardware codecs when it chan. Hangout Chat is really a rework of the idea of hangouts. It brings a lot of functionality that people like from Slack (everything you mention I believe). Note that Hangouts today does have search sorta (it ain't great). If conversation history is on, it can be searched from Gmail web (not Inbox either), using the "in:chat" filter. (I work for G, opinions are my own) [0] https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/03/09/google-takes-slack-new-hangouts-chat-meet-apps/ https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/03/09/google-takes-slack-...
- twothamendment 9y ago
  Are there any plans to have a decent API? Getting a script to post to Slack is trivial. Same with having a bot read all the messages in realtime.
  - kyrra 9y ago
    From: https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise-focused-hangouts/ https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise... "The Hangouts Chat platform supports a wide range of capabilities — from bots to simple scripting using Google App Script — and integrates with third-party applications so teams can do more right from within the conversation." That's I think all that has been said so far. More details will come once it's released.

netzone 9y ago

Have you looked into Discord? Not sure about their Linux availability, but it can do all of the above, also voice channels. They don't have video/screen share right now but it's apparently something they're working on. It's also more free than Slack. That might not be a good thing though, since it's unclear if $5 monthly will be able to support them over time.

kyrra 9y ago

Hangouts Chat / Meet [0] brings a lot, if not all, of this when it comes out. Meet keeps most of what hangouts video has today, but a better UI and uses hardware codecs when it chan. Hangout Chat is really a rework of the idea of hangouts. It brings a lot of functionality that people like from Slack (everything you mention I believe). Note that Hangouts today does have search sorta (it ain't great). If conversation history is on, it can be searched from Gmail web (not Inbox either), using the "in:chat" filter. (I work for G, opinions are my own) [0] https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/03/09/google-takes-slack-new-hangouts-chat-meet-apps/ https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/03/09/google-takes-slack-...

twothamendment 9y ago
Are there any plans to have a decent API? Getting a script to post to Slack is trivial. Same with having a bot read all the messages in realtime.
- kyrra 9y ago
  From: https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise-focused-hangouts/ https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise... "The Hangouts Chat platform supports a wide range of capabilities — from bots to simple scripting using Google App Script — and integrates with third-party applications so teams can do more right from within the conversation." That's I think all that has been said so far. More details will come once it's released.