Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients

Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by nodata on Thursday September 26, 2013 @07:25AM (#6450026)

> And I'm not even talking about things like online-status 'missing'

Can someone tell me what the green underline beneath an avatar meant then?

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by MasterScrat on Thursday September 26, 2013 @07:29AM (#6450032)

It's binary: you're there or not. You can't be idle or busy anymore, which sucks pretty hard for regular users.

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by StavrosK on Thursday September 26, 2013 @08:06AM (#6450138)

It's more than that: The Android app has no feedback at all. I have no idea even whether you're there or not. It's a complete clusterfuck, and orders of magnitude inferior to the old Google Talk app, which worked fantastically well.

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by theintern on Thursday September 26, 2013 @08:48AM (#6450339)

This was literally fixed in the last day. There's now feedback similar to the browser app.

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by w1ntermute on Thursday September 26, 2013 @08:53AM (#6450361)

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13uvbygrw2zyfopw04...

I wonder if the bug is related to these changes.

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by Plutor on Thursday September 26, 2013 @08:49AM (#6450343)

Yeah, the lack of status is exactly why no one uses SMS for messaging.

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by StavrosK on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:00AM (#6450397)

If I didn't want to know if the recipient was currently online and could chat idly, I'd use SMS.

(My brain short-circuited there for a moment when trying to form a reply to a comment that was both extremely sarcastic and ludicrously wrong. Hopefully the above meets all our expectations.)

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by scott_karana on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:57PM (#6452439)

Hangouts is realtime and shows "now typing" indicators, which aren't present in SMS. It's hard to see whether someone left, in which case better asynchronous communication should be used, or whether it's a lull in conversation.

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by kevingadd on Thursday September 26, 2013 @07:56AM (#6450103)

The green underline isn't in the Android app, unfortunately.

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by mikeevans on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:44AM (#6450635)

Android will be getting an online/offline indicator soon: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13uvbygrw2zyfopw04...

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Re:Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients by MikusR on Thursday September 26, 2013 @11:49AM (#6451542)

Only in the new hangout window. Not where it matters most - the list of your active hangouts.

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