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Google to shut down Gtalk on February 16, will force users to switch to Hangouts
- duncan_bayne 12y agoAnyone have an authoritative source for whether XMPP support will be kept? I've seen a lot of speculation floating around but can't find anything concrete.
- gumby 12y agofrom google itself: "Nope" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714557 On my Mac I use the messages app for iMessage, Facebook messenger, gtalk and a couple of other XMPP services. I actually tried to have a "hangout" call from someone today -- it required downloading a plug in which frotzed my Safari. I gave up and called the guy back on his phone. He told me that was what usually happened to talk to people outside his company. This doesn't seem like much of a loss. "Hangouts" is a google+ service which means only ex googlers try to talk to me with it, and I can call them on the phone. I only have two people who try to talk to me with gtalk -- we can switch to something else. It's crazy that messaging has become so balkanized when SMTP and HTTP/HTML have managed to become so standard. It feels stuck in the 1990s!
- duncan_bayne 12y agoThanks. What a pity. Still, it's sort of what you'd expect for a company that's okay with DRM in W3C standards.
- dfkt 12y agoThe link you posted is from two years ago. Not sure what to think of it. It's also contradictory in its message. The headline says "no XMPP", but point 1) says "XMPP will continue to work"... color me confused.