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

Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by hota_mazi on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:40AM (#16352838)

> Chat apps are the posterchild of what happens when open standards (irc, jabber, xmpp,...) get replaced with walled gardens

Slack is showing that the usefulness and popularity of a chat app has exactly 0% to do with whether it uses an open or closed protocol.

It's all about product design and user interface.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by Dylan16807 on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:40PM (#16355475)

And the failing of the walled gardens is that you can't choose the product design and user interface you want and use it to talk to everyone.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by seba_dos1 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:32PM (#16368920)

Slack provides IRC relay, which initially was almost feature complete, but got out of date with time.

Anyway, in some time Slack will probably fade away as quickly as it appeared, further contributing to the problem grandparent noticed and you seem to misunderstand.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by digi_owl on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:45PM (#16355003)

And the more i read about Slack the less i want to touch it.

Emoji, gifs, fuck off.

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