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Google+ shuffled off this mortal coil to the great app graveyard — right? Well, not quite. As a reminder, its corpse was reanimated as , designed strictly for paying G Suite customers. Now, Google Workspaces that it has killed that app off too, marking the final end of Google's social network or whatever G+ was, reported.
Google said that the introduction of the group chat app last year negated the need for Currents, so it plans to wind it down starting in 2023. Before it does that, however, it will add new capabilities to Spaces to accommodate some of Currents' social features. "These include support for larger communities and leadership communication, investments in advanced search, tools for content moderation, and more," Google said.
As was the case with Google+, the usage and purpose of Currents was likely unclear to many users. That issue extends to Spaces, as well, unfortunately. As Google , Spaces is an evolution of Rooms but is a part of Google Chat that's designed for group messaging, much like Slack. Got it?
What's also kind of funny is that Google recycled both the Spaces and Currents names: was a news-style app that existed until 2013, and was a messaging app we saw for a short time in 2016. So one might say that Google+ was effectively killed twice, and Currents was also buried two times. Now, let's hope we never hear those names again.
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Google said that the introduction of the group chat app last year negated the need for Currents, so it plans to wind it down starting in 2023. Before it does that, however, it will add new capabilities to Spaces to accommodate some of Currents' social features. "These include support for larger communities and leadership communication, investments in advanced search, tools for content moderation, and more," Google said.
As was the case with Google+, the usage and purpose of Currents was likely unclear to many users. That issue extends to Spaces, as well, unfortunately. As Google , Spaces is an evolution of Rooms but is a part of Google Chat that's designed for group messaging, much like Slack. Got it?
What's also kind of funny is that Google recycled both the Spaces and Currents names: was a news-style app that existed until 2013, and was a messaging app we saw for a short time in 2016. So one might say that Google+ was effectively killed twice, and Currents was also buried two times. Now, let's hope we never hear those names again.
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