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I still use Gchat over Hangouts because it's nice seeing my contacts list sorted by who is online, as opposed being ordered by recency of last communication. So many of my Gchat conversations have started because of the online status. I've hit up friends that I haven't talked to in over a year and had really great, synchronous, conversations because of it.
The only benefit I see out of this is the removal of SMS support in the Hangouts Android app. I like my communication channels separate. I don't like Hangouts or Facebook Messenger wanting to control my cell phone messages (SMS). This might be a naive question, but will chat within Gmail still work? Is that chat provided by Talk or Hangouts?
> I like my communication channels separate. You could always keep them separate, if you wanted to. This feature was totally invisible to people who left it turned off. I personally want to have all my messaging in one place, which used to be possible. Now everything is fragmented, and I constantly have to remember how each person in my life prefers to communicate, open the right app, find their name, and then messag…
I think this is true to an extent, but I think messaging isn't as simple "get this text to this person." Different communications channels have different contexts, implied importance, etc. Making them too unified papers over and confuses those social differences. For instance, it would be super weird if a coworker texted me instead of IM'd me about some everyday work thing.
Can somebody please explain to me Google's messaging strategy? As a Voice, Talk, Hangouts, SMS user for what feels like the last decade, I am so incredibly confused that I want to walk into Google and fire all 18 of the 19 messaging teams. That way at least we'll have one singular group to yell at when things go wrong. Here's the Google Messaging landscape as far as I know it: - Google Talk in Gmail: I think this is…
Can anyone explain why if I switch to upgraded Hangouts I see only a few online contacts, but in the old Google Chat I see a bunch of people available and online? It's a serious regression and will cause me to stop using chat in gmail for the most part.
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It’s not that easy. I’ve had proper DKIM, proper SPF, my IP wasn’t blacklisted anywhere. But I still ended up in Spam. So I had to send for about a year emails to friends every few days, replicating our discussions on WhatsApp etc (so they’d have organic content), and I’d ask them to mark them as "not spam". Now I end up in their normal Inbox. EDIT: Why the downvotes? Please comment instead what you think is wrong –…
That is correct, the age of the domain and the "not spam" click matter a lot. If you want a new domain and have little traffic (e.g. personal domain), you're fucked.
I also haven't rated or reviewed an app on the Play Store in about two years due to the Google Plus requirement there also.
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They have already mail email incompatible. They haven't changed protocol but best of luck if you run your own email server.
The world made it impossible to roll your own server, not Google. The proliferation of spammers in email has necessitated a cottage industry of security and filtering and all manner of mechanisms, automated and otherwise, to deal with the avalanche of bullshit streaming through that protocol. Google's the blame party for a lot of things, but not the loss of email freedom.