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by Liuser 3376 days ago
Their Chrome plugin was also wonderful. Keyword "was". It used to be a discreet window that persists across tabs, which you could minimize and expand from the lower right corner of your screen.

They killed it and now it's an awful behemoth google hangouts window. Really disappointing.
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Denvercoder9 3376 days ago
Yes, I loved the old Hangouts extension. By far best experience of any IM app I've used (and that's a lot, unfortunately).
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krackers 3375 days ago
https://github.com/dhleong/hangr

is a really neat replacement. Unfortunately I'm not sure how much longer hangouts as a whole is going to last (didn't they say they were discontinuing it from consumer space?)

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wykydtron 3376 days ago
It's like designed for legally blind or touch screen and the green makes me want to vomit
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