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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by mikejb on Thursday November 22, 2018 @08:33AM (#18509884)
I agree with you, and in my opinion Reader was the most used and most useful product on that list. Most other discontinued products were indeed underutilized (for various reasons) or outpaced by their competitors. But TBH, there are some products I wouldn't mind seeing on that list (Allo being one of them).
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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by dankohn1 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @09:24AM (#18510128)
If you liked Google Reader, please give Inoreader a try. It's a nearly perfect clone but with useful features like filtering and following Twitter feeds.
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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by xellisx on Thursday November 22, 2018 @11:05AM (#18510732)
I ended up going to TheOldReader, I'll have to check that out.
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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by macspoofing on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:15AM (#18510424)
>But TBH, there are some products I wouldn't mind seeing on that list (Allo being one of them).

Really? Allo is(was) a great little chat app. Why would anyone hate it apart from the fact it is yet another chat application.

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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by mikejb on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:43AM (#18510599)
> Why would anyone hate it apart from the fact it is yet another chat application.

It's not that I hate Allo, I just prefer Hangouts. That might seem orthogonal, but a part of me worries that at some point in the future Hangouts will be deprecated in favor of Allo.

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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by macspoofing on Thursday November 22, 2018 @01:11PM (#18511491)
Allo is in maintenance mode. The entire Allo team has been moved over to Android Messages. Hangouts is also in maintenance mode. The 'Hangouts' branding has been repositioned to their slack-type productivity tool. Like Allo, what you know as Hangouts is dead.
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