tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.
tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.
I stopped using Hangouts when that happened too… Then I realized that Google Chat was almost identical, so I just started using that instead. Didn’t have to migrate data or anything 🤷♂️