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OK cool. What was wrong with Hangouts anyway?

chneu 1y ago
At one point I think Google had 4? chat apps. Hangouts, Voice(at one point merged with hangouts), Duo, and Meet. If you wanna count Google+ I think you could.
- oblio 1y ago
  And the only good one was Google Talk. Clean, efficient.
  - dyauspitr 1y ago
    Meet is pretty no nonsense.
    - jfoster 1y ago
      Corporate ADHD will get it eventually.
- IceWreck 1y ago
  I think Allo and YouTube Chat were also around for the same time as Duo.
  - chneu 1y ago
    Lol holy shit I've forgotten them. Get your shit together Google
    - ahartmetz 1y ago
      They should cut the crap and just call them "Jeff Smith promotion app", "Vishesh Gupta promotion app" and so on. Easier to remember, too.
- selkin 1y ago
  There were many more than four in total. Right now they have more then four (there are completely separate messaging apps hidden inside Docs and Maps). It is easy to confuse them all, considering those apps got renamed often. By my count, there were four different apps called Hangouts (!), some existing at the same time: (1) The original Google Hangouts, which replaced Google Talk. (2) Google+ Hangouts, which was video only. Google+ also had a text messaging app called Huddle. (3) Google Hangouts Meet, a video chat aimed mostly at the workplace. By the time it was launched Google+ was dead and buried. The “hangouts” was later dropped, making it just “Google Meet”. (4) Google Hangouts Chat, the equivalent text chat device. They also dropped the word “hangout” from the name, but it was launched as “Hangouts”.
  - jfoster 1y ago
    The messaging in Maps has been ended. https://developers.google.com/business-communications/business-messages/resources/release-notes/update-on-gbm https://developers.google.com/business-communications/busine... I can't bring myself to care enough about whether whatever was in Docs is still going or not. We both know how it will eventually end up even if it is still going.
dataflow 1y ago
I'm guessing probably employees didn't want to schedule a "hangout" with their CEO to discuss layoffs, and teachers didn't want to schedule "hangouts" with students or parents to discuss their bad grades, etc.
- politelemon 1y ago
  By extrapolation, managers should be looking to ban "slack" at workplaces, and individual contributors shouldn't use "teams".
- jfoster 1y ago
  Contrary to what you're suggesting, if you cast your mind back, it seemed a fairly successful product. The question is why they felt the need to "fix" something that didn't really need fixing.

At one point I think Google had 4? chat apps. Hangouts, Voice(at one point merged with hangouts), Duo, and Meet. If you wanna count Google+ I think you could.

oblio 1y ago
And the only good one was Google Talk. Clean, efficient.
- dyauspitr 1y ago
  Meet is pretty no nonsense.
  - jfoster 1y ago
    Corporate ADHD will get it eventually.
IceWreck 1y ago
I think Allo and YouTube Chat were also around for the same time as Duo.
- chneu 1y ago
  Lol holy shit I've forgotten them. Get your shit together Google
  - ahartmetz 1y ago
    They should cut the crap and just call them "Jeff Smith promotion app", "Vishesh Gupta promotion app" and so on. Easier to remember, too.
selkin 1y ago
There were many more than four in total. Right now they have more then four (there are completely separate messaging apps hidden inside Docs and Maps). It is easy to confuse them all, considering those apps got renamed often. By my count, there were four different apps called Hangouts (!), some existing at the same time: (1) The original Google Hangouts, which replaced Google Talk. (2) Google+ Hangouts, which was video only. Google+ also had a text messaging app called Huddle. (3) Google Hangouts Meet, a video chat aimed mostly at the workplace. By the time it was launched Google+ was dead and buried. The “hangouts” was later dropped, making it just “Google Meet”. (4) Google Hangouts Chat, the equivalent text chat device. They also dropped the word “hangout” from the name, but it was launched as “Hangouts”.
- jfoster 1y ago
  The messaging in Maps has been ended. https://developers.google.com/business-communications/business-messages/resources/release-notes/update-on-gbm https://developers.google.com/business-communications/busine... I can't bring myself to care enough about whether whatever was in Docs is still going or not. We both know how it will eventually end up even if it is still going.

dataflow 1y ago

I'm guessing probably employees didn't want to schedule a "hangout" with their CEO to discuss layoffs, and teachers didn't want to schedule "hangouts" with students or parents to discuss their bad grades, etc.

politelemon 1y ago
By extrapolation, managers should be looking to ban "slack" at workplaces, and individual contributors shouldn't use "teams".
jfoster 1y ago
Contrary to what you're suggesting, if you cast your mind back, it seemed a fairly successful product. The question is why they felt the need to "fix" something that didn't really need fixing.