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Yeah not surprised. Google - trillion dollar company can't seem to field a coherent chat solution full stop.

Corporate side - google will always provide something that is vaguely functional under whatever name/brand they call it this month

Personal side - I'll use whatsapp/fb messenger cause that's stable. Everyone's on it too...because surprise it's not a complete shitshow.

As a whole I've given up on google fielding usable chat. Even sending a screenshot over hangouts doesn't work depending on which of the 4 clients (browser extension, cell, browser separate and gmail integrated) you're on to this day. At one point the official corporate solution rolled out to 10s of thousands of people - I kid you not - was a hacked together save it on drive, share folder silently & send link over hangouts, click on link & open in google drive to display picture.

How does a company manage to ship something as sophisticated as GCP but can't get this right? Clearly they're not incompetent so wtf is going on there?