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You're mixing GChat with Hangout. GChat was(is) minimal and very useful.
You're right. Point still stands that google's design choices are god awful these days, though.
To this day, ICQ is still the best messenger I've used.
We already have a perfect messaging system that is fully interoperatble, works, is relieable and doesn't need a new account because everybody has one: emails. You can perfectly chat with emails, the problem are that all clients make you use emails as digital letters instead of chats. But you could perfectly imagine an email client doing what gchat used to do.
Email isn't fast enough. Gchat was/is faster.
It's more a metter of perception. When you click on a mail, it takes a lot of time to type, then your UI have a delay to say it's sent, then you have this time taken by many clients to move your mail to the proper folder. But a proper mail-chat client would just make the message appear as sent, then to all the stuff in background, and you would just not see it slower than other chat. The time people take to answer you message is usually the bottleneck, not the network.
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Yes but each requires its own username/password combo!
This. Hideous and awful.
Yeah your right : and people writing on walls in Stone Age were the precursors of Facebook! Damn.
Who is building the open-source Slack? Four things are needed: 1. Good support for multiple active clients, including mobile. If I see a message on desktop, I shouldn't get notified on mobile. If I read on one client, when I reconnect on another, it should show me the convo starting where I left off. Etc etc. 2. Eternal history (ideally configurable by users/channels) with decent search. 3. A few basic bells-and-whis…
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The removal of XMPP interoperability was the moment I realised "Don't Be Evil" was just another marketing puff, and not actually a statement of values. But I think the termination of Google Wave (which was also federated and built with XMPP) was the real moment Google gave up on team communications.
The "Don't be Evil" is so vague that it was obviously just for show right from the start.