tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.

  • ‘Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    …nope, can’t use it to chat with my friends and family, we all gave up on Teh Goog and I worked there for over a decade! 😆

    (also, by the time you see this, they may have renamed it or introduced a competing messaging app. or both.)

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      And the new one they introduced will have fewer features than the old one with no plans to get it to feature parity.

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        1 year ago

        Alternatively, they may make an amazing second chat app that is the smoothest you’ve ever seen and then they’ll shutter it and say “don’t worry, we rolled a couple of those features into Google Chat.”