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CrankyBear OP t1_jdsoxcb wrote

This is really depressing. It never lived up to its promise, but back in the day, it sounded like a great idea.

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eldog t1_jdt827g wrote

Google has groups? Is that like part of Hangouts or something?

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ThunderPigGaming t1_jdtqd24 wrote

As someone whose livelihood depends on Youtube and Blogger, I am getting more and more nervous...

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cool_slowbro t1_jdtrley wrote

iGoogle would be perfect as my Chrome homepage but no, better work on something useless while fuckin up basic functionality across Google products.

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tottergeek t1_jduq8y5 wrote

Sorry Google Groups has been neglected for years. The problem is that finding alternatives that are also free is not easy - which seems to be the main theme of the article (although they refer to paid options as proprietary)

Slack and Teams both seem to fit the bill here. But the article sidetracks into lease known options that only a programmer might love.

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Reasonable_Ticket_84 t1_jdv55ay wrote

Google Groups is used by Google internally for communication....

It's just not a high priority for development.

I also like how the blog post mentions FluxBB as a FOSS alternative, but FluxBB actually is abandoned for 2 years now.

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The reason why these hosted services gain popularity is because hosting your own infrastructure on top of spending your limited free personal time on a project is overloading. There's only so much bandwidth people have.

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ChimpWithAGun t1_jdvi5uj wrote

Google [insert app name here] has been left to die.

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