Re:Google Hangouts Chat
by Pigo on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:21PM
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Everyone is talking about how this won't be a good chat app, but isn't this more like Jira than Slack? If it's a good alternative to Jira, I'd be glad try it out. I personally can't stand Jira, and not able to use VSOnline. I just never have a suitable alternative to suggest when I found out a team needs to use it.
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Except you only have 18 months to use it before it's abandoned.
...and 3-6 before they release a new Hangout Business Chat or some such that's better because.
It's like Slack, but with a slightly different conversation threading model (and more Google integrations). Ostensibly its conversation model is better at keeping different conversations separate within the same room.
I'm curious, why can't you use VSOnline?
Because the place I'm at now doesn't have msdn and a lot of Microsoft buy-in by the developers. It probably works with other tools, but I know it's tied into VS very nicely. If it were my choice, that's what I'd like to use. I think it works great and is intuitive.