After using Hangouts for years now, I&#x27;ve become sick and tired of it, and have finally found an alternative. Unfortunately, this is only for the text&#x2F;image chat functionality, but it&#x27;s a very good replacement:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.org&#x2F;</a><p>It was on the front page of Hacker News just a couple of days ago, and that&#x27;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.<p>For voice and video, however, I haven&#x27;t found a good alternative that is easily accessible to people that don&#x27;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&#x27;t find anything more convenient than it.