Google Talk Is Being Discontinued

Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by smdz on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:34PM (#13951109)

GTalk was an amazing simple-to-use application. Should I say it was simpler than Skype. I don't like hangouts at all.

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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by Liuser on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:25PM (#13951519)

Their Chrome plugin was also wonderful. Keyword "was". It used to be a discreet window that persists across tabs, which you could minimize and expand from the lower right corner of your screen.

They killed it and now it's an awful behemoth google hangouts window. Really disappointing.

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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by Denvercoder9 on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:00PM (#13952189)

Yes, I loved the old Hangouts extension. By far best experience of any IM app I've used (and that's a lot, unfortunately).

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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by krackers on Saturday March 25, 2017 @03:42AM (#13954521)

https://github.com/dhleong/hangr

is a really neat replacement. Unfortunately I'm not sure how much longer hangouts as a whole is going to last (didn't they say they were discontinuing it from consumer space?)

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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by wykydtron on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:37PM (#13951607)

It's like designed for legally blind or touch screen and the green makes me want to vomit

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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by ouid on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:44PM (#13951190)

simple, elegant, compact, cute emojis, and my preferred method of communication for more than a decade.

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