Still using it as my Hangouts client via ye-olde GTalk plugin, even though I tho... | Hacker News

Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

login

AdmiralAsshat on Jan 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

Still using it as my Hangouts client via ye-olde GTalk plugin, even though I thought Google had stopped supporting it.

I've debated several times switching over to the purple-hangouts plugin so that I can get proper groupchat support, but the last time I tried it wanted me to do some shady-looking stuff with signing into Google and using the Developer Tools to grab the authentication key.

smt88 on Jan 22, 2021 [–]

They're killing Hangouts soon, so this is probably moot anyway.

H1Supreme on Jan 22, 2021 | [–]

I thought it was just transitioning to Chat?

smt88 on Jan 22, 2021 | | [–]

Yes, but Chat is a totally different code base. Hangouts API clients will stop working.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact