Yet Hangouts is much lower friction and generally easier to use than Skype!
What good alternatives are there to Hangouts? Preferably something that doesn't require flaky browser plugins.
What good alternatives are there to Hangouts? Preferably something that doesn't require flaky browser plugins.
It was on the front page of Hacker News just a couple of days ago, and that's where I found out about it. Much nicer clients, open protocol (so you can even make your own clients), reliable, and many more features than Hangouts make this a much better alternative.
For voice and video, however, I haven't found a good alternative that is easily accessible to people that don't want to set things up on their computer. Hangouts will just randomly not work for me, depending entirely on random chance, and I still can't find anything more convenient than it.
But it was a great experience compared to Hangouts! The connection quality was on par with Skype and it was super light-weight for something based in the browser.
8.5/10, would use again.