How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?

Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by ocdtrekkie on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:51PM (#16351259)

I was a big fan of Meebo, personally. Since it was a web app, you could sign in once on any computer and all of your chat clients were there.

...Guess who bought it and killed it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meebo

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by Macha on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:16AM (#16352207)

For a while, imo was meebo's successor, but they saw the writing on the wall for third party interoperability after Skype cut them off for the nth time and decided to focus on their own walled garden chat and Twitter service instead :(

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by thinkloop on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:10AM (#16351441)

the answer is... Google

> In June 2012, Google acquired Meebo to merge the company's staff with the Google+ developers team.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by Al-Khwarizmi on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:10AM (#16352196)

Yes, it was really good. It pretty much Just Worked(tm), had a good UI for a web app, and was relatively lightweight (I remember using it even at crappy airport computers).

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by tobias3 on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:23AM (#16352235)

It used libpurple to connect to the chat networks -- same as Pidgin :)

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by rident on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:48AM (#16353140)

Yeah I really liked Meebo too

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