Hangouts Death

A Final Goodbye to Google Hangouts

This has been said a number of times over the years now, so I get that you may be like, "Huh?" but Google Hangouts is supposed to officially begin its final stages of shutdown today. November 1 has been the marked day for all of the final Hangouts locations to...
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Poll: Are You Using Google Chat?

Leaving Google Hangouts for another messaging platform was a once-unimaginable idea. My entire family (and most friends) had all bought into Google's most important messaging app over the years because it was simple to use through a Google account and worked...
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Google Hangouts has Left the Play Store

Google Hangouts has had the slowest death of all time. We first started talking about its demise back in 2020, shortly after Google released Chat and Meet. At that time, we believed that Hangouts might disappear from our phones and the Play Store within that...
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Google Hangouts Gets an End Date for Workspace Users

After years of talking about the end times, Google made it official today: Hangouts will be turned off and unavailable for Google Workspace customers next month. For those who haven't yet transitioned over to Google Chat, Google is about to force you onto it....
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Google Wants You to Stop Using Hangouts

Part of me was hoping that when the end finally came for Hangouts that there would be a bigger deal made of it. Not necessarily a celebration, but at least an acknowledgement from Google that the messaging app so many of us have used for the past decade was...