Google announced this week that for Workspace users, Google Hangouts will be fully upgraded to Google Chat starting November 1, 2022. The last piece of the puzzle is Hangouts on web, which will redirect to Google Chat on web at the start of next month. At that point, Hangouts should officially be a thing of the past for virtually all users.
The death of Hangouts has been really drawn out, with features getting taken away back in 2017. In 2018, that’s when we first got real word that Hangouts was set for its end in 2020. Then COVID happened. Now it’s nearly 2023 and here we are, still talking about it. What a trip, man.
Godspeed, Hangouts.
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Is anyone able to select multiple pictures to send for Chat? It’s the one thing I really hate about Chat. I actually enjoyed Hangout a lot more. I’m on a S20 FE and can’t select multiple pictures to send for the life of me.
Google and messaging — what a complete flop. Hangouts closest thing they had to a great messenger product
When I hear about Hangouts it just reminds me of the time when Google tried to merge SMS into Hangouts and how bad it was.
How to use the Hangounts chat exports exported via Google Hangout? It exports a json file, which is not human readable.
Good God! Just kill it already! Stab it with a fork and be done with Hangouts!
This is the most drawn-out shuttering of a service Google has ever done.
Or just leave it alone and let it hang on until it does a natural death from lack of updates