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		herodoturtle on Dec 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gmail having issues Agreed. And I'd hope that their plan B of "get the whole team on Hangouts" isn't met with connection / auth issues. Kinda feel bad for the googlers. Hope they get this right.

marcan_42 on Dec 16, 2020 | [–]

When I was there they had an IRC network for this reason. I hope they still do. Not quite the same as VoIP but fewer dependencies...

kuschku on Dec 16, 2020 | [–]

That's why the network folks at Google and AWS use IRC for just that purpose. Simple, no external dependencies, just works.

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