After years of using Google Chat through every iteration and product name, Google has made it completely unusable with the new gmail layout and since they've forced me into a separate window now for chat, it no longer holds the main benefit of tight gmail integration. Looking for the best alternative, lightweight replacement. Lightweight like AIM used to be or Google Talk (ah those were the days). Not heavyweight like Slack or discord or any of those other lumbering monstrosities. Maybe lightweight doesn't exist anymore? Requirements: * Free * email account based * Seamless across desktop (web) and mobile (Android in particular) * Notification customization - specifically 'notify on first unread message only' * Archived and searchable
Yeah thought of that but I think WhatsApp is just a SMS app skin basically with number-based sign up. I need a (Gtalk/AIM) style email based solution. Maybe these no longer exist.
May i know the reason why you need only email based? Is it serving any purpose?
AKTUALLY you can use slack for this- you can add an external connection and send a message to people based on their email
I work on Google Chat. I genuinely would like to help you figure out your usage of Google Chat. If you want a dedicated window for chat, you can use chat.google.com . If you want integration with gmail you use mail.google.com
There are already bugs open on this issue that are being ignored and a very vocal group within Google explaining how the new layout that detaches the tight integration between Gmail and chat is a complete fail. Please fix this.
Not just that there is no way to know in how many groups you have been tagged in and you have to sit and read the entire chat history to understand what's the context of the chat. And where exactly have you been tagged in the chat
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Looks like this is number based, not email based? I have contacts with no phone number or only with a VOIP numbers (Google Voice). Also, no web client for telegram?
Yes number based. Just noticed your requirement to be email basedā¦ it has a pretty good web version though