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Google will shut down Currents, the work-focused Google Plus replacement

Replace April twelfth, 2023, 5PM ET: Google introduced it’s going to start winding down Currents on July fifth, with information accessible for export till August eighth, 2023, when it’s going to not be accessible.

Google has introduced that it’ll shut down Currents, which was launched in 2019 as a substitute for Google Plus for G Suite. In a weblog publish, the corporate says it’s “planning to wind down” Currents, and that it’ll push the individuals who had been utilizing it to Areas, which is kind of like Google Chat’s model of a Slack channel or Discord room.

Google says that it’s making the change so customers received’t should work in a “separate, siloed vacation spot” — as an alternative, they’ll be utilizing Chat and Areas, which can quickly be prominently built-in into Gmail. The corporate guarantees it’s going to make Areas a extra appropriate substitute over the subsequent 12 months, saying it’ll “ship new capabilities” like “help for bigger communities and management communication, investments in superior search, instruments for content material moderation, and extra.”

Google’s going to begin turning off not often used options in Currents quickly

Whereas Google says its plan is to begin winding down Currents in 2023, “not often used” options will fade out beginning in Q1 2022 (which we’re at the moment in). It lists the options that will probably be eliminated or degraded in a help doc, and guarantees to maintain Workspace directors up to date about future modifications and the migration timeline.

It’s additionally, by the way in which, the second time Google has shut down its product named Currents — earlier than the present (ha) iteration, it was {a magazine} app. It’s an actual double-whammy, even for a corporation that has a popularity for dumping tasks.

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