[OT] Managing Google Groups headaches

[alex23]

On 3/12/2013 11:17 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> And Gmail is also becoming less useful to me.  I don't want to use
> hangouts; xmpp and google talk worked just fine.  But alas that's
> disappearing.

I really hate Hangouts. If I wanted to use Skype I would be using Skype.

I'm also still unable to understand why Google scrapped Reader and kept 
Groups, although I suspect it's because the latter will eventually 
integrate more closely with Plus & Hangouts.