Google hangout link troubles

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#1

I just wanted to alert these who rely on pre-set google hangouts (like ls.st/sup, or ls.st/nwb, I suspect there are more), that the latest release of hangout broke these links, and this might be permanent. Owners of the meetings that rely on these links: make sure you have a backup plan… this has been quite disruptive for some of us this morning, (and the simultaneous hipchat troubles didn’t help either)

Jacek

#2

Jacek … do you know if hangout links are just changed or if there is a fundamental change that will prevent the redirect from ls.st from working?

#3

The links just seem to have gone broken; it should be easy to create new ones and update the sup and other aliases to point to them.

#4

I.e., let’s:

  • get a list of hangouts aliases that were broken
  • create new hangouts URLs for them, and have someone with admin permissions on the URL shortener (I know of @igoodenow and @KSK) to update the shortcuts to point to the new links.
#5

Google seems to have fixed these; at least ls.st/sup and ls.st/nwb are working again.