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Google Talk Is Being Discontinued

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Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued

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Post by ouid »

God damn it. I do not want to use the Google Hangouts experience. Talk is a simple, elegant chat application. That is all I require and all I desire from Google. And I do not want to be patronized about how I actually want more "integration" with google products.

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Post by pgrote »

zekevermillion wrote: post #9
mindcrime wrote: post #2

XMPP federation with third-party services providers will no longer be supported starting June 26. Fuck you, Google. Just fuck you...

Seriously, Google owes me $50 for my obihai router I bought solely for free google integration. This is the problem with building anything on top of Gsuite -- they will screw you over at a random moment and deprecate whatever service you may have been relying on.

I think it'll still work, right? Google Voice is still supported.

Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued

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Post by maverick_iceman »

thrill wrote: post #8
mindcrime wrote: post #2

XMPP federation with third-party services providers will no longer be supported starting June 26. Fuck you, Google. Just fuck you...

I wish someone at Google would explain their overarching strategy and target. This piecemeal approach just reeks of no coherent plan.

I doubt they have any coherent strategy in the messaging space.

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Post by rsoto »

mindcrime wrote: post #2

XMPP federation with third-party services providers will no longer be supported starting June 26. Fuck you, Google. Just fuck you...

I'm sorry, I'm not really into chat protocols, but what does XMPP federation mean?

For what I understand I will be able to login via Pidgin into my Gmail account, but not from a custom domain, am I right?

Either way, GTalk was such a clean, centered and small IM experiencie +10 years ago, Hangouts is just a mess.

Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued

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Post by radiorental »

zekevermillion wrote: post #9
mindcrime wrote: post #2

XMPP federation with third-party services providers will no longer be supported starting June 26. Fuck you, Google. Just fuck you...

Seriously, Google owes me $50 for my obihai router I bought solely for free google integration. This is the problem with building anything on top of Gsuite -- they will screw you over at a random moment and deprecate whatever service you may have been relying on.

I think this relates to apps that utilise gtalk. Obihai is integrated with gVoice.

Is there something I'm missing?

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