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Dec. 20th, 2019 08:03 amhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/the-great-google-hangouts-shutdown-begins-october-2019/
Somehow I didn't manage to hear of this 11 months ago. ARGH. How many messengers is this I've had to replace, now? I just want to talk to my husband while I'm at work and he's at home on our desktop computers (is the use case 75-90% of the time depending on his class schedule; more rarely I message from my desktop or tablet to his phone), preferably with changeable userpic, display name (not that Google passes that through - a feature we lost when we had to give up MSN), and status message. Why has that gotta be so hard?
(Specifically what we use is the Google Talk protocol in Instantbird, itself no longer developed, but the message history is shared with both Hangouts as app and as integrated in Gmail.)
Somehow I didn't manage to hear of this 11 months ago. ARGH. How many messengers is this I've had to replace, now? I just want to talk to my husband while I'm at work and he's at home on our desktop computers (is the use case 75-90% of the time depending on his class schedule; more rarely I message from my desktop or tablet to his phone), preferably with changeable userpic, display name (not that Google passes that through - a feature we lost when we had to give up MSN), and status message. Why has that gotta be so hard?
(Specifically what we use is the Google Talk protocol in Instantbird, itself no longer developed, but the message history is shared with both Hangouts as app and as integrated in Gmail.)