Talk:Google Spaces

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Proposing a rewrite since Google has revived Spaces
Hello all! I've added my COI tag to this page and would like to propose some clarifying edits. Google has revived Spaces by essentially promoting Google Chat's Rooms to become the new version of the Spaces that is the subject of this article. This article points readers to a section of the Google Chat article that attempts to differentiate the two, but I think that readers are better served with a rewrite of this article that connects the information already presented here with new information about the revival of Spaces. It's less confusing and makes this encyclopedia better. I've included a suggested rewrite below and I'm open to any feedback. Thanks for your time.

Google Spaces (formerly Google Rooms) is a component of Google Workspace that functions alongside Google Chat and Google Meet to integrate group productivity features like message threading and real-time collaboration to organize topic-based conversations without exiting Gmail. Google revived the Spaces name to rebrand Rooms as part of the expansion of Google Workspace to all users in 2021.

History
Between May 2016 and April 2017 Spaces was a mobile app for group discussions and messaging. The app was intended to compete with Slack as a content sharing platform where users can create a "space", invite their friends for discussion, and share videos, images, text, and other media. Google services such as the web browser Chrome, search engine Google Search, and video sharing platform YouTube were built into the app to allow users to source content from them.

On May 16, 2016, Google announced the launch of Spaces as "a tool for small group sharing". On February 16, 2017, Google announced Spaces would be discontinued on April 17. On March 3, Google announced that users could only print, view and delete existing spaces within the app, users could no longer create new spaces.

Deprecated Features
Spaces allowed group chatting and messaging between users. Users initiated conversations by creating a 'space' and then inviting friends to join. Once inside a 'space', there was a box at the bottom of the screen where one could tap buttons to post links and images and other content to the chat room. A conversational view let users see what the group was talking about.

Google products such as Google Chrome, Google Search, and YouTube were in built into the app to allow users to find and share articles, videos, and images without leaving the app. It required a Google account to sign up.

The following were the types of posts that a user could share in a "space":


 * Links - URLs of media which are automatically embedded
 * Videos - YouTube videos were integrated for mobile users; however, desktop users could directly search in the YouTube database as well as see their recently watched videos
 * Photos - With support for multiple-image uploads, users could directly post through their camera roll or through Google Photos
 * Text - Plain text, without formatting support

Google Spaces Relaunch
In June 2021, Google announced that the Rooms feature within Google Chat would become Spaces, a platform for topic-based collaboration, with shared files, tasks and conversations. Spaces is accessible from within Gmail alongside Chat and Meet as part of the Google Workspace expansion to all Gmail users. With the relaunch, Spaces allows up to 8,000 users to collaborate on projects and utilize other Workspace features such as creating Google Drive documents and Google Meet meetings from within a Space, as well as integration with Task creation and Calendar availability. By the end of 2022, the Spaces team size limit will increase to 25,000. Spaces are discoverable across an organization and a Space's creator is the default manager of the space with the ability to delegate manager status to another user. The move from Rooms to Spaces also brought improvements in moderation and security features.

In February 2022 Google rolled out a new Gmail interface for Workspace that was designed to better integrate Spaces as well as Chat and Meet. Spaces is expected to gain increased functionality when Google Currents is shut down sometime in 2023 and user content is moved to Spaces.

Features

 * In-line topic threading
 * Search across multiple Spaces
 * Browsing within a user's organization
 * File sharing
 * Task assignment
 * Side-by-side document and chat view
 * Calendar event creation
 * Online presence indicators
 * Message pinning
 * Video conferencing

SBCornelius (talk) 21:21, 23 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Google Spaces (2016) is completely different from Spaces in Google Chat (2021), so these two topics should not be merged into one article. With that being said, I don't see any major issues with the rest of your proposed changes, so I will incorporate them in this article and on . InfiniteNexus (talk) 00:49, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * This is now ✅. InfiniteNexus (talk) 02:43, 24 June 2022 (UTC)