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by untog 4780 days ago
That thread of unsourced speculation, you mean?
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rst 4780 days ago
It's sourced. That's a reply to a thread based here, which starts by quoting email from Google which says point blank that "the new [hangouts] service will not support XMPP".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714557

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mortehu 4780 days ago
From the post you linked:

> Your users may use any chat client that supports XMPP. XMPP clients will continue to work as usual with the App Engine XMPP service.

> Note that the changes discussed above have no impact on non-Google XMPP clients

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rst 4780 days ago
But not with the new Hangouts service, which was announced to great ballyhoo in the Google I/O keynote yesterday as their new, general-use chat system for the vast bulk of their userbase. Which is what this whole conversation is about.
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cooldeal 4780 days ago
Ugh, and someone else states that XMPP will be disabled for users who chose to upgrade to hangouts.

Why this utter confusion over a simple thing after a whole three hour keynote yesterday and today no one seems to have a clue? Communication fail, if you ask me.

Color me skeptical, but there was similar confusion when SMS search stopped working suddenly,and then people realized Google killed it. XMPP support may stay, but I am not going to bet more than 2 bucks on it.

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