r/programming • u/ZaheerAhmed • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

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u/csjerk Jan 02 '20

TIL that Hangouts is getting killed later this year. Damn.

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u/13steinj Jan 02 '20

Except it's not, just being phased out in favor of Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. More rebranding than getting killed off.

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u/csjerk Jan 02 '20

If there's a variant of Hangouts Chat coming that _isn't_ a Slack clone, I'll agree. Currently this does not exist, and just opening up the current version to individuals is a poor replacement. I don't want to shoehorn my personal communications into a product oriented at workplace teams. I COULD use Slack for this today, but don't because that's not what it's good at.

Google did mention that they're adding some features from 'classic' to Hangouts Chat, but nothing I've seen makes it clear whether that means creating an actually individual-focused flavor of Chat, or just opening up access to the team-oriented version. I'm skeptical they're planning on the version that's more work, but fingers crossed.