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+title: "Google Hangouts is dead, long live Google Hangouts"
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+- opinion
+- google
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+In this post I would like to share a handy little workaround for returning to
+Google Hangouts, despite Google Meet. Having narrowly escaped working at Google
+via acquisitions _twice_, I have stood by and watched as the Ad Words
+money-pipe funded rewrite after boondoggle after rewrite. When Google
+[announced "Google
+Meet"](https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/google-quietly-launches-meet-an-enterprise-friendly-version-of-hangouts/)
+earlier this year as an "enterprise-friendly version" of Google Hangouts, I was
+annoyed, but not surprised.
+
+Google seems to be so systematically incapable of building a great product
+experience, that it comes as no surprise that organizations continue to be
+stuck in a weird limbo between Google Hangouts and Google Meet. Google Meet
+somehow doesn't support nearly as many features as Google Hangouts, which I
+guess makes it enterprise-friendlier, but it also is _broken_ in ways that
+Google Hangouts is not. Screen-sharing has never worked for me on any
+Linux-based browser, Chrome included, and works only to varying degrees for my
+colleagues on macOS or Windows. Unlike Google Hangouts, sometimes audio and
+video stop working inexplicably, requiring in some cases fully quitting the
+browser. Google Meet also removed the ability to **dial-in telephones**, which
+to me is a _killer_ feature for Google Hangouts; any conference phone, or
+mobile user, regardless of customer site or location, I can at _least_ dial-in
+via Google Hangouts. In order to bring those users into a Google Meet, they
+just be using a Google account under Google Chrome.
+
+"Enterprise-friendly."
+
+Fortunately, like most products at Google, Google Hangouts is not fully dead.
+You can still create meetings with Google Hangouts, right from within Google
+Meet even!
+
+**Here's how you get to Google Hangouts:**
+
+![Google Meet](/images/post-images/google-hangouts/meet-screen.png)
+
+From the main Google Meet interface, click "Use Meeting Code."
+
+![Use Meeting Code](/images/post-images/google-hangouts/use-meeting-code.png)
+
+
+Enter in a clever name, in accordance with HR guidelines and policies, and then
+start your meeting.
+
+
+![Viola Google Hangouts](/images/post-images/google-hangouts/hangout.png)
+
+
+Oh hey, this looks familiar! From the old Hangouts interface, if you click the
+little "Add Participant" icon on the left of the top bar, you can enter in a
+phone number to dial-in another participant.
+