INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hangouts Chat, Google business-focused Slack competitor, is getting emoji reactions
That a feature that Slack has long had, so if anything, today move makes Hangouts Chat even more Slack-like than before.
Hangouts Chat, you
may remember, is very different from Hangouts, Google chat app for regular users which at one point was supposed to be superseded by Allo
But then Allo failed, so the future of Hangouts remains uncertain
Hangouts isn''t getting emoji reactions today, though, that Hangouts Chat.
There really not much more to be said about this new feature
It works just like you&d expect and just like in Slack; this update allows you to now quickly add a thumbs-up emoji to all those comments in
Hangouts Slack Chat that you couldn''t care less about but where internal politics dictate that you should say something (or, in
Google-speak: &communication styles at work are evolving, and expressive communication modes are oftentimes preferred over simple text&)
You could also use them for a quick internal poll or to acknowledge a request where typing &yes& would&ve felt like too much work.
Either
way, these new emoji reactions are now rolling out to all G Suite users
Google expects that everybody will have access to them within the next three days.
