Messages only send intermittently and are unreliable, and google contacts don't always load when the app starts up. Any one have any idea why it is no longer working? I thought google was just finally enforcing 2 step verification but that didn't fix it when I enabled it
Posted Nov 12, 2021, 10:57 AM UTC
I've been experiencing the same thing. I'm pretty sure what we're seeing is Google finally disabling support and features towards transitioning Hangout/Talk users to Google Chat. From what I remember Hangouts was supposed to be shut down by the end of 2021.
Same. This is the last service i was using trillian for. Are there any services that have a desktop client anymore? i just want messages to go to/from my phone and PC w/o needing a browser window open.
I am using Franz at the moment. It's just an electrum app running several web messengers. It an sad end to XMPP.
Just gave it a go, supports hangouts but not chat so same issue. Clicking Open Chat just opens a browser window...
And having facebook messenger back would be nice too but yeah its just the browser page, which isnt what i want to avoid having up on my entire second monitor all the time. Contacts list and chat windows, all i want.
If im sitting at my computer i just want to be able to send messages to my wifes phone with a full keyboard with shared history on my phone from an AIM like interface, i dont even care what service, but i guess thats just not possible anymore and im old now?
This PWA thing sucks too...
God i miss my og RAZR. If i plugged it into my PC it would literally pop up the entire phone in the corner of my screen and i could send sms w/ keyboard and make and take calls w/ the headset, dialed clicking the buttons w/ my mouse. Everything since then has been a step backwards...
If im sitting at my computer i just want to be able to send messages to my wifes phone with a full keyboard with shared history on my phone from an AIM like interface, i dont even care what service, but i guess thats just not possible anymore and im old now?
I don't know if this will help, but 'My Phone' is built in in Windows X and is just that for sms/mms. depending where you live, this might work for you.
I can use hangouts in Franz no problem. Yes, it sucks to have to revert to 6 web interfaces, like: Discord, Teams, Whatsapp, Telegram, Hangouts.. but this is the only way now. Franz just does the trick. It's not Trillian, never will be, but it is what it is
Yeah, for now ive settled on the google chat PWA taking up half my second monitor since thats all i use anymore really. RIP my Lifetime Trillian pass lol.
https://i.imgur.com/51zcfnS.jpg
Uhg, im so sick of phone interfaces making my desktop experience worse. I just google image searched and whatsapp for desktop is the same. Battle.net even went to this style chat interface not too long ago, guess its only a matter of time before steam does too.
What was wrong with separate chat windows?
I hear no one giving answers, can anyone definitively answer why google talk in Trillian suddenly stopped working properly? Not all of us can figure out and use complex hacker based alternatives nor want to try to find other programs like pidgin yet, until Trillian can be linked into Pidgin I don't care for it, I want google to work in Trillian again damn it.
Mine is still working so far, but I'm going to watch it closely for changes.
my google talk is technically connected, but a friend of mine in the UK was having google server issues yesterday, but even though they apparently went away the issues are not gone. We cannot reliably communicate anymore with google, and had to switch to discord, and its inconvenient because discord's logging is not as convenient as Trillian's.