The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP

Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by jlgreco on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @05:35PM (#5715127)

Despite the clear warning signs, I am willing to put money on people whinging in a year or two when they shut down those servers, just like everyone got all upset about Reader.

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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by npsimons on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @06:41PM (#5715546)

And whining about shutting down Reader accomplished what, exactly?

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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by jlgreco on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @06:42PM (#5715552)

Absolutely nothing of course. Didn't stop people from whining; people love to whine on the internet.

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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by sp332 on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @09:27PM (#5716299)

There was no good replacement for Reader two years ago. There are plenty of federated XMPP servers around now.

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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by subway on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @11:38PM (#5716766)

Plenty of federated XMPP servers, true, but unlike Reader, XMPP requires other users on federated servers to be useful. Since the Reader brouhaha I'd been considering moving away from GApps back to hosting my own mail and xmpp. Now Google has made the XMPP side of that worthless, 87% of my IM contacts use G(Mail|Talk), and will switch to Hangouts.

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Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP by silon5 on Thursday May 16, 2013 @01:13AM (#5717038)

If they do that, people will migrate off Gmail too. I know I will.

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