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I don't share your hope, but oh yes. That'd be amazing. Currently it's a usability nightmare and entirely unclear who can reach you and who cannot. As someone

I don't share your hope, but oh yes. That'd be amazing. Currently it's a usability nightmare and entirely unclear who can reach you and who cannot. As someone without Hangout or G+ people with a @gmail.com suffix might or might not be able to contact me, sometimes depending on the age of their mobile or whether they use GMail at this particular moment. Their presence might or might not be accurate, because they are either away or use Hangout and stay 'away' forever (not offline, nooooo. They are away in G+ land..). I hope you are right and I'm wrong.

zx2c4 12y ago
> Currently it's a usability nightmare and entirely unclear who can reach you and who cannot. Yes! Exactly this. I had started working on a Prosody server side plugin that would route messages for Hangouts users through a Google Account if they were on Hangouts instead of old-Gtalk, but the details of detection seemed flaky at best. When I have some time, I'll give it another look by examining the User-Agent the client sends. I'm not hopeful, but I guess there's a chance.