Hangouts Chat, Google’s Slack competitor, comes out of beta

Re:Hangouts Chat, Google’s Slack competitor, comes out of beta by scrollaway on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:24PM (#16494022)

Is it Hangouts Chat now? I thought it was Hangouts Meet. Or was it just Meet? Or was Meet the one that replaced Allo?

Sorry, this could be the best chat app yet, I just can't take Google seriously for messaging apps anymore. I just finished archiving all my chat logs from Google Talk and Hangouts (from Takeout) and shutting it down. I use Discord now, exclusively; for person-to-person, group DMs, managed servers (company, gaming, etc), voice, video, everything. Happy with it. It even has slack-compatible webhooks.

Hey, did you know there's no way to remove a contact from Hangouts? Once you add them, they're there forever unless you block them. Because that's how you build good messaging apps, right?

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Re:Hangouts Chat, Google’s Slack competitor, comes out of beta by WingH on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:12PM (#16498389)

I agree. That ship has sailed long ago for me. I actually liked Google Talk, when it was incorporated to your email. Then they came out with something called Hangouts that does GodKnowsWhat.

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