Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
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Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
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Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
#2XMPP federation with third-party services providers will no longer be supported starting June 26.
Fuck you, Google. Just fuck you...
Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
#3The 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?
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#4The 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 message them. It's incredibly frustrating to have a worse 2017 messaging experience than I did in 2007 with my BlackBerry.
> This might be a naive question, but will chat within Gmail still work? Is that chat provided by Talk or Hangouts?
Chat in Gmail is Hangouts.
Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
#5The 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?
you're probably in the minority. When you look at the popularity of imessage and one of the big reasons people complain about allo is that there was no fallback.
Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
#6XMPP federation with third-party services providers will no longer be supported starting June 26. Fuck you, Google. Just fuck you...
Parent shouldn't be downvoted. Depression and/or rage are among the valid responses to this part of the news.
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#7I 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.
Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
#8XMPP 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.
Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
#9XMPP 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.
Re: Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
#10A couple of questions concerning this announcement.
1) With the removal of SMS from Hangouts on Android does anyone know if this affects SMS in Hangouts on ChromeOS? 2) Is retiring a euphemism for killing in terms of Google Labs additions or does this mean they will still work, but won't be made available to new users?
Thanks.