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I fear the upcoming changes... It ALWAYS starts with a name change, then more useless features, more ensh*ttification, then users flee, then the product is kill
by aanet 3mo ago
I fear the upcoming changes... It ALWAYS starts with a name change, then more useless features, more ensh*ttification, then users flee, then the product is killed.
Google:
- Hangout
- Chat
- Meets
- Duo
- ...
- electriclove 3mo agoAllo?
- frollogaston 3mo agoAllo, Google Talk, Hangouts Chat (not the same as Hangouts), "Meet (original)", idk maybe some other thing called Google Chat that isn't the new Google Chat, uhh my Android phone has 2 "Messages" apps so one of them is probably deprecated?
- sunaookami 3mo agoGood article from 2021: 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-...
- tanseydavid 3mo agoWow that very long series of pivots in the same messaging space is eye-opening and disheartening. It is hard to believe. Thank you for sharing that.
- frollogaston 3mo ago2021 was around the peak of this nonsense. Since then they've tried to clean it up. Well also have been whining about iMessage. I did use Google Talk at some point back in the day, when I was heavily involved in XMPP-related development and therefore interested in using it too.
- ambicapter 3mo agoThe new chat interface in google meets is hilariously bad. Doesn't even load half the time.
- adamm255 3mo agoWave. That was more of a tech preview though I guess.