I use Hangouts, but that&#x27;s mainly because it integrates Google Voice, which I&#x27;ve had since it was Grand Central and even then, I mostly do SMS with it (including desktop).<p>It&#x27;s actually really sad to see these events... one of my favorite things in the late 90&#x27;s and early 00&#x27;s was actually the voice chat rooms in Yahoo messenger, but the bots ruined that platform... it was proprietary, but it was fun.<p>These days, it&#x27;s pretty much SMS only for me... I don&#x27;t need an app that only works on my phone, not my desktop, and actively spies on me, and sucks my battery life.  I do have skype which I use sometimes, mostly for those that I talk to overseas on rare occassion.<p>I had high hopes that XMPP or a decent replacement would evolve that actually worked well... same goes for Diaspora and a bunch of other things though.  In the end people like their walled gardens. :-(