Submitted 1 year ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://9to5google.com/2023/11/17/google-chat-with-friends/
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.
No, because Google will just go and randomly cancel.
All my family and friends used to use Hangouts and it was perfect. I’d been with it since Google Talk but it was Hangouts SMS and functional video chat integration that won everyone over. Then SMS was removed, and later there was talk of it changing to Chats… and the stench of Allo and Duo was still in the air so we abandoned ship rather than bothering.
Now we’re on a mix of WhatsApp and Messenger depending on the social group. Not really my preference but once bitten, twice shy so Google products get a hard pass.
That stretch of time when hangouts did SMS was beautiful.
I’d sooner trust Plankton with the krabby patty secret formula
I’d trust 18th-20th century French populous that they have an appropriate form of government more than I’d trust Google it has a chat app it’ll commit to.
They have released and killed about a dozen chat services. What makes this one different?
The name, I guess
There actually was a Google Chat before. It used XMPP. They’re even recycling names, cause they’re starting to run out of names from all the past services they killed.
If it becomes an open-source, decentralized service with bridges and more users than Matrix, I’d consider it.
If google had just built on top of Hangouts starting in like 2013, they’d have a great product. It was built into gmail. That’s a huge install base. It was just there and they just… didn’t do it. Too many middle managers and asshole resume padding engineers, not enough adult supervision.
Why would I use a chat app tailored to businesses to chat with my friends ?
Why not using Slack while we’re at it ?
Google chat is just Google hangouts and was one of the first messengers out there I believe. My family still uses it to have chats between Android and iPhone users.
Not even remotely. But at the time it seemed the better option. Migrating everyone from the walled gardens of AOL instant messenger and MSN messenger. To something a bit more open and at the time we wrongly thought more stable. The original G+ chat was their own xmpp server. And for a while was fully interoperable with other xmpp servers. But easier to convince people to go to "Google” than some other weird domain name. Then Google closed it off. Which sucked, but as long as they would be less restrictive about what platform and how you interfaced with it. Everything would still be okay. Right, right? Then they shut down Google Plus. And the roller coaster started. It got rolled out his chat. Then became Hangouts for the first time. At some point it became allo. And eventually went back to Hangouts again before they killed it off yet again.
The only way anyone could or should use it again. Is if they implement just a straight up XMPP server tied in to Gmail. And leave it interoperable with all other XMPP servers. As part of Gmail, it might actually stand some permanence. So long as we all don’t remember inbox.
I currently use it with friends, and have been using it since it was called Google Talk.
What was that thing called in 2009? Google wave I think? It was amazing. Got us through grad school. So of course they killed it.
I use it with a group of friends and we love it.
I would rather use netcat command to send massages than Google Product.
Yes, my friends using it
I use it with my wife and friends more than what’sapp or messenger
There is nothing that would get me to use that as there are dozens of better and more private solutions
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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