[aanet]

I fear the upcoming changes... It ALWAYS starts with a name change, then more useless features, more ensh*ttification, then users flee, then the product is killed.

Google:

- Hangout

- Chat

- Meets

- Duo

- ...

[ambicapter]

The new chat interface in google meets is hilariously bad. Doesn't even load half the time.

[adamm255]

Wave. That was more of a tech preview though I guess.

[electriclove]

Allo?

[frollogaston]

Allo, Google Talk, Hangouts Chat (not the same as Hangouts), "Meet (original)", idk maybe some other thing called Google Chat that isn't the new Google Chat, uhh my Android phone has 2 "Messages" apps so one of them is probably deprecated?

[sunaookami]

Good article from 2021: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...

[tanseydavid]

Wow that very long series of pivots in the same messaging space is eye-opening and disheartening. It is hard to believe. Thank you for sharing that.

[frollogaston]

2021 was around the peak of this nonsense. Since then they've tried to clean it up. Well also have been whining about iMessage.

I did use Google Talk at some point back in the day, when I was heavily involved in XMPP-related development and therefore interested in using it too.