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To be fair, the migration from Talk to Hangouts was pretty smooth, and Hangouts still works. Google gave up pushing Hangouts for consumers but I don't think it
by seabrookmx 9y ago
To be fair, the migration from Talk to Hangouts was pretty smooth, and Hangouts still works.
Google gave up pushing Hangouts for consumers but I don't think it's going anywhere, as it's a big part of G-suite for corporate customers. Though with Slack and Discord I'm sure it's usage isn't as strong as it once was.
- stephenr 9y ago> the migration from Talk to Hangouts was pretty smooth I take it you never used google talk via xmpp.
- seabrookmx 9y agoI did actually. They kept the XMPP compat running for quite a while after, so for me Pidgin and my old blackberry GTalk app kept working. Eventually they shut it down though, but in an uncharacteristic move they gave quite a bit of lead time.
- chocolatkey 9y agoThey gimped the hangouts extension with the great chats that would slide up on the screen and could be individually rearranged though and replaced it with the new useless "app". Now I either have to load inbox/gmail or hangouts.google.com, which loads slowly for something such as messaging
- wetpaws 9y agoI was furious when they dropped desktop application support for Talk. Hated hangouts, finally switched to Telegram and will never look back.
- 4ad 9y ago> the migration from Talk to Hangouts was pretty smooth So smooth that I lost access to hundreds of contacts that used a different, non-Google XMPP server.