Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#60AMW)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is shutting down Talk (also known as GChat) for good - its instant-messaging service you probably haven't used much since 2007 (via Android Police). Although Google migrated Talk users over to Google Hangouts in 2017 - another one of its now-sidelined messaging platforms - it was still accessible by third-party XMPP clients like Pidgin and Gajim.
But Google will cut these last lines of life support on June 16th - three days from now. In a message on Talk's support page, Google says it's winding down Google Talk" and will no longer support third-party apps, citing its initial announcement in 2017. Users who try to sign into GChat after the 16th will see a sign-in error. If you still want to use Pidgin through Google services, P...