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Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by delecti on Monday October 18, 2021 @06:40PM (#28912723)
Google Talk evolved into Hangouts which then evolved into Chat. It's all one continuous line with a terrible marketing strategy. From what I can tell, Meet seems to be just a confusing way to access Hangouts video chats.
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Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by j16sdiz on Monday October 18, 2021 @08:34PM (#28913610)
"Evolve" here meant removing compatibility with xmpp clients AND losing all chat history.

Chat history matter a lot, really.

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Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by delecti on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:42AM (#28918624)
I can still see all of my Talk/Hangouts/Chat history going back years. Removing XMPP sucks, and I was annoyed by that too, but the chat history is still there.
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