Google is using Discord now?

[Steptoe]

What happened to their hangouts or whatever?

 

[MKSKS]

What happened to their hangouts or whatever?

Hanged them out

 

[xReminisce]

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What happened to their hangouts or whatever?

got hanged out to dry

 

[Iuzzu]

nobody gives a shit to hangouts...and Discord is one of the most important social media, it's incredible how Discord is being used by gamers + otakus + businessmen + startups massively

 

[Gogol]

Hangout got hanged long back. Funnily, I still see it in my gmail, and I have no idea why they would have it there.


But anyway, even if it was active, it wouldn’t make sense for such a case. IRC would have been a better choice if they had to go with old tech.

 

[xReminisce]

Hangout got hanged long back. Funnily, I still see it in my gmail, and I have no idea why they would have it there.

They integrated it with Google Chat
Which is still a thing more or less for Google business users.
Kind of impressed that it never died considerating how many "chat"/"video" apps google put out in the past two decades

 

[Gogol]

They integrated it with Google Chat
Which is still a thing more or less for Google business users.
Kind of impressed that it never died considerating how many "chat"/"video" apps google put out in the past two decades

huh that’s why. I mean I kinda feel nostalgic seeing my old chats, but it is of no use otherwise lol.

 

[Steptoe]

nobody gives a shit to hangouts...and Discord is one of the most important social media, it's incredible how Discord is being used by gamers + otakus + businessmen + startups massively

Last time I used Discord was for Wow raiding. Just logged on and my DMs are full of crypto/NFT spam

 

[xReminisce]

huh that’s why. I mean I kinda feel nostalgic seeing my old chats, but it is of no use otherwise lol.

Which was eventually integrated and transferred into Google Meet which prior recently also absorbed Google Duo.

 

[Ashk881]

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What happened to their hangouts or whatever?

Hangouts is dead since like 2020.

Every company these days happens to have a discord community apparently, so google decided to join the gang and now you have that abomination for bard.

Sucks imo. Should've used google groups.

 

[ristoriel]

It's because discord is more popular than any available platform in the market and almost everyone is using it from all the fields. It looks like a cheap marketing tactic for their new AI bot as they are promoting it with the help of discord. They might also be giving the impressing that it can be integrated in the chatbot of discord.

 

[Panther28]

Doesn't microsoft own discord now? These big tech companies and their stacks are like cross-breeding inbreeds lol

 

[TheSplinter]

Google has a long history of failed/abandoned projects

 

[xReminisce]

Doesn't microsoft own discord now? These big tech companies and their stacks are like cross-breeding inbreeds lol

Werent they turned down back in 2021?
or did new talks surface since then
MS is already having a hard time acquiring Activision lol
They will probably destroy what's left of the acti-blizz franchises

 

[Panther28]

Werent they turned down back in 2021?
or did new talks surface since then
MS is already having a hard time acquiring Activision lol
They will probably destroy what's left of the acti-blizz franchises

ah never knew it fell through. i missed that one!

 

[xReminisce]

ah never knew it fell through. i missed that one!

Yeah, i think that's when they decided to go balls deep in improving Teams (hence Teams 2)
Which oddly enough, I still haven't been able to tried it yet (not rolled in my work or personal accounts) despite it being rolled out more or less