Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by agentdrtran on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @06:46AM (#11166001)

Are they? What have the done recently that made Hangouts better?

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by toyg on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:11AM (#11166117)

The first step was disentangling it from G+.

I hope the next step is a sane API to let third-party clients integrate with it. It does not have to be XMPP, as long as it's something clear and well-supported.

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by Gratsby on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:41AM (#11166261)

They treat Hangouts like Yahoo would. Great product that they completely hosed by not caring about the userbase.

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by hvidgaard on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:26AM (#11166490)

I wouldn't thrust Google for a second. They are not afraid to close down services with a short notice - so unless I can run my own "Hangouts" backbone it means nothing to me.

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by eru on Thursday February 25, 2016 @03:52AM (#11173188)

Sorry, not sure how much I can say in public. (There's lots of stuff that's public, but I can't just do a knowledge dump, because it's not clearly separated in my mind.)

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