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Google Hangouts does not support XMPP federation, meaning the ability to connect people on Google Hangouts to people that are not on Google Hangouts. Ironicall
by bad_user 12y ago
Google Hangouts does not support XMPP federation, meaning the ability to connect people on Google Hangouts to people that are not on Google Hangouts.
Ironically, in May 2013 at Google I/O it was Larry Page that was expressing his dissatisfaction with the state of the industry for the lack of interoperability with messaging, lambasting Microsoft. But then just after Microsoft announced their support of XMPP in Outlook.com, Google announces Hangouts.
I guess that was provided as an excuse for dropping XMPP support. Well, welcome to the club Google, now you're part of the problem.
- e12e 12y agoIt's a pretty sad state of affairs: both facebook chat and google support xmpp, but neither support federation.
- berdario 12y agoI just tried right now and federation is still "working". Or at least I can send messages to people on other networks, but I cannot receive them. I wonder if Google is truly phasing it out, or if it's just an issue with the service I'm using.