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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by blhack on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:28PM (#16485362)
It almost seems like satire at this point. Maybe this is all actually a long con to drive everybody back to IRC (or keep them there if they never left).
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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by sandos on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:30PM (#16486543)
They already drove everyone I know to FB messenger. A long time ago.
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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by mirhagk on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:25PM (#16487721)
It's sad and true. FB messenger is such a crappy thing but google still manages to be worse than it. I think the last time I used a messaging app that doesn't consistently crash and fail on the basics (scrolling, pasting text) was when I used MSN messenger. That was also the last time I could use a single messaging app to message everyone
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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by lambda_lover on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:42PM (#16488712)
Luckily my friend group has slowly migrated away from FB Messenger thanks to the battery life impact (substantial, in our experience) and hamfisting of Stories/Ads into the app.

For the most part, we're back on SMS now. Personally I'm hoping AOL releases AIM mobile soon and we can finally go full circle to my first messaging client.

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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by blhack on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:40PM (#16489496)
I'd love SMS if apple would stop screwing around with it re: imessage.
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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by ssebastianj on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:36PM (#16486618)
And if IRC is not enough we could get back to Pigeon Post[0] running over "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service"[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_post [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549

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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by dhimes on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:00PM (#16485668)
Wouldn't that be awesome!
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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by crocal on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:03PM (#16485696)
Let’s do this.
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