I currently have seven different communications channels with my colleagues. That's counting all of Google's nightmarish mishmash of chat platforms as one channel, which is frankly generous. The iteration of Hangouts that pops up over Gmail isn't the same as the iteration of Hangouts Chat that you can access on hangouts.google.com, which isn't the same again as the iteration of Google Chat that shows up at chat.google.com. All the services allow you to use some, but not all, of their features to contact people logged in on other versions of those three. But they will fail silently, leaving you completely unaware of whether you've been ignored or used the wrong version of the platform to contact someone.
please don't tell my work I wrote this
please don't tell my work I wrote this
please don't tell my work I wrote this
I currently have seven different communications channels with my colleagues. That's counting all of Google's nightmarish mishmash of chat platforms as one channel, which is frankly generous. The iteration of Hangouts that pops up over Gmail isn't the same as the iteration of Hangouts Chat that you can access on hangouts.google.com, which isn't the same again as the iteration of Google Chat that shows up at chat.google.com. All the services allow you to use some, but not all, of their features to contact people logged in on other versions of those three. But they will fail silently, leaving you completely unaware of whether you've been ignored or used the wrong version of the platform to contact someone.