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No, GTalk was XMPP-compatible and federated, Hangouts was siloed. So non-google XMPP users could speak to GTalk users, but not Hangouts users.
by WhyNotHugo 9y ago
No, GTalk was XMPP-compatible and federated, Hangouts was siloed.
So non-google XMPP users could speak to GTalk users, but not Hangouts users.
- SamWhited 9y agoThis was frustrating to say the least, if they'd just done a clean break it would have been annoying, but at least we all (I was using a third party client at the time) would have known what was going on, but they more or less silently broke it, but ony some of the time, and then strung it out for ages. I suspect it was a deliberate strategy to try and make the blame fall on the shoulders of third party clients instead of them for cutting it off, but who knows. I wish they'd just shut down the interop cleanly when they moved to hangouts, it would have saved me a lot of pain and debugging early on.