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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by djsumdog on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:23PM (#13465638)
The Hangouts app fixed the missing MMS/threading issues. So if we've switch from Voice to Hangouts ... do we have to switch back now?

It's pretty confusing and there are so many services that won't take either of my Google Voice numbers.

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by jansenv on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:24PM (#13468560)
Hangouts API is discontinuing, and the app is buggy as heck. We've already moved away from it and are experimenting with in-house solutions or looking for alternatives. Slack is too pricey, everything else seems shite.
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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by djsumdog on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:02AM (#13469389)
You mean Google is discontinuing the API? (They had an API? They removed XMPP federation and eventually support, if that's what you mean).

The libpurple/Hangups projects for chat clients is the work of reverse engineering the existing Hangouts protocol (which apparently heavily relies on protocol buffers).

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by detaro on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:06AM (#13469398)
Yes, they had an API which could control and customize Hangouts https://developers.google.com/+/hangouts/
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