Is this a rhetorical question? 😂
Back in 2010 my friend group and I tried. Google kept changing their chat programs and we’d keep having to migrate or change what we did. Eventually we went to discord and it was at least stable.
We tried, Google. We tried. I won’t go back.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If I needed a message system that I knew would make messages unavailable after a few years because it was shut down by a company that never supports side projects this would be a valuable service.
Contend6248@feddit.de 1 year ago
This, never commit to any Google products beside search, maps, mail and Android
DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I learned that lesson with Google+. I loved it back in the day, then suddenly they just canned it.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
But what about our Lord and Savior, RCS?
poopkins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s ironic, because Google Chat to this day has migrated chats over from Hangouts and effectively served messaging for over a decade. But even Hangouts migrated chats over from Google Talk, which I personally used at least as far back as 2010.
To put that into perspective, Apple’s iMessage has only been around since 2011.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You have no idea how many messages I had in Wave. Do you realize how many Google messaging services have come and gone with zero portability?
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