Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020

Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by 0x54D5 on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:34PM (#18574131)

The new Google Chat for G Suites is actually not even chat. Each chatroom is a collection of Google Wave style cards that jump over each other as activity happens in different ones. The experience is so bad I wrote a blog post about it here. https://technex.us/2018/11/google_chat_is_the_worst_desktop_...

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by brazzledazzle on Friday November 30, 2018 @09:10PM (#18574596)

We used it as a backup one day when our normal chat service went down. I closed it within 5 minutes and I didn’t even hit your issues which are way worse. What a shit show.

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by kageneko on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:38PM (#18574957)

Uggh. Yeah. We've been required to use it at work, if we want real-time chat. We were using Slack before, but it was taken off the authorization list. I made a long list of things that was wrong with it while we were with it. The notifications are the worst so far. Constant notification spam for every single message. I disabled everything ... and it still sent them. I had to turn them off in iOS.

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