While Messages and RCS is how Google wants you to message friends, Google Chat also fits that role and the company today reminded us...

tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.

  • herriott101@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I always used to use Hangouts as my default chat app for friends. We had a big DnD group chat on it. But we migrated to WhatsApp when Google said they were going to kill hangouts and never looked back.

    Why would I trust Google with my chats when they constantly abandon/kill off their best tools. We’ve now moved to Signal and I’m expecting to stay there for a long time.

    • 9284562@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Have you tried Telegram? I’ve slowly been moving over to it more and more with my contacts, and I find it’s a much nicer experience than WA. Especially with handling files and attachments, which I could see being useful in D&D.

      • snarf@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Agree. My group is on Telegram, and we love it. Excellent features, and the dev team is great.