Where rooms are generally for teams or project collaboration, group chats are useful for talking directly with 2 or more people.īoth rooms and group chats are a great way to keep track of your team’s work or projects. The only difference is there are no threaded chats. Group chats are rooms with somewhat less functionality. And you don’t get unnecessary notifications for conversations/ threads you’re not following. They make sure that you only get information that’s relevant to you by organizing everything in threads. Rooms are a lot like channels, offering conversations in form of threads that you can subscribe to. With Rooms and Group Chat in Google Chat, the face of communication has changed completely. What are Rooms and Group Chats in Google Chat It was precisely the reason why many companies, while using G Suite, now Google Workspace, preferred another service for communication. Previously, Hangouts chat was more of an IM-ing and video chat service and left something to be desired for when it came to group conversations. A big difference in Google Chat is the introduction of Rooms and Group Chat. And with the new name, there has also been a makeover to Google’s chatting service. I’m just not sure why it is waiting till 2020 to kill it off, though.Before you leave a room/ group chat, it’s important to know your options thereafter. With Google (hopefully) continuing to invest into RCS and Chat/Android Messages, it’s clear there is no need for Hangouts or even Allo, and the company taking the service down makes a lot of sense. The company still makes Allo, which never really took off, and it has recently started investing in RCS, with the new Chat/Android Messages app, which acts almost like Android’s iMessage. Google has already tried a bunch of other messaging apps since Hangouts, and it almost became a running joke. Google will reportedly keep the Hangouts brand alive with enterprise-focused Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet apps available through G Suite. The mobile apps for the service, on the other hand, continue to show sign of age. The app, which has long been neglected by the company, still resides in the new Gmail. 9to5Google reports that the company will be shutting down Hangouts in 2020. Google will soon be killing Hangouts, the company’s infamous messaging app. We are fully committed to supporting classic Hangouts users until everyone is successfully migrated to Chat and Meet.” We have not announced an official timeline for transitioning users from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet. Both Chat and Meet are available today for G Suite customers and will be made available for consumer users, too.
“In March 2017, we announced plans to evolve classic Hangouts to focus on two experiences that help bring teams together: Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. A Google spokesperson sent us the following statement: Instead, it will be launching consumer versions of Hangouts Meet and Chat and eventually move users of the “classic” Hangouts to Hangouts Meet and Chat. Update: Google might not be (fully) killing Hangouts after all.
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