Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Google Hangouts Chat?

Recently, our top brass is looking to replace Slack with Google Hangouts Chat [1] for a team of around 70 members.

Since we already have G Suite subscriptions, and it comes with Hangouts Chat already, without need to pay any extra fees.

It’s said that we need to switch to Hangouts Chat for a month’s period for “evaluation”, but I’m not quite sure how that’s gonna work since that means switching back and forth between Slack and Hangouts Chat.

Personally, I find it not very useful, given that:

- Have to migrate existings bots to Hangouts

- Unable to search messages from Slack from Hangouts

- No public channels to browse & join

- No native client on Linux

Not quite sure about pros. Any thoughts?

Link: https://get.google.com/chat/