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Google has had so many variants of this that I don’t even know what they’re shutting down by just reading the headline.

• agilob 4y ago
  Let me help you, if you type `/hangout` command in Slack, it opens google meet...
  • rrix2 4y ago
    And if you just type / and find that option in the list it's listed as a "Google+ Hangout"!
• bborud 4y ago
  If Google hadn’t been so obsessed with making messaging special (one way or another) they might have managed to make it good.
• andrepd 4y ago
  GChat, Talk, Duo, Meet, Hangouts... what did I miss?
  • lotsofpulp 4y ago
    Allo
    • Animats 4y ago
      Orkut.
      • lowdest 4y ago
        Wave
  • morepork 4y ago
    Messages, Voice, Allo (rip) even Google docs: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hottest-chat-app-teens-google-docs/584857/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hotte...
  • tech234a 4y ago
    Also YouTube messaging
• lmkg 4y ago
  Fun reading: An exhaustive(?) history of Google's communication tools. There are like five different products with "Hangout" branding. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...
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