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I've been a long-time user of Google Talk. No-nonsense, lightweight (installer was sub-2MB!) chat client that talked to just about anything else. And unlike ope

I've been a long-time user of Google Talk. No-nonsense, lightweight (installer was sub-2MB!) chat client that talked to just about anything else. And unlike open-source Jabber clients at the time it had a killer feature: centralized and searchable message archive when XMPP crowd was only starting to think about XEP-0313. Fortunately XMPP has caught up in the past decade feature-wise (except cross-platform video calls I guess) and I managed to convince some friends to use Conversations but this could have played out differently had it not been for G+.

NL807 5y ago
Google Talk was great, the only thing I miss from google.
- p4bl0 5y ago
  Don't forget Google Reader. I know there is Newsblur now, but still.
  - xref 5y ago
    Google kept stripping features and starving reader of development that by the end loving reader was full blown Stockholm Syndrome. I’m glad they killed it or I wouldn’t have discovered Newsblur
Boulth6 5y ago
Agreed on both points. XMPP is nowadays so much different than decades ago. I've migrated my family to Conversations and they're super happy with it. Google's constant messanger churn tires regular users that just want to communicate instead of taking part in Google's internal political/promotion experiments.