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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by varjag on Friday November 30, 2018 @05:16PM (#18573227)
No, it's the same product with enormous care for user transition. Right now I sit in a Skype chatroom continuously running since 2007.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by ElCapitanMarkla on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:17PM (#18573643)
I have the opposite experience. I hated the new UI they came out with recently and apparently so did 90% of my contact list. I used to always have it running now I barely open it.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by varjag on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:37PM (#18573802)
The UI has changed more times than I care to count. Skype itself changed ownership 3 times, the underlying communication tech went from P2P to supernodes to Azure integration. At some point I ran its Linux client that hasn't been updated for 5 years. The damn thing never stopped working and the chat is still there.
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