# Google hangout link troubles

**URL:** <https://www.rubin.community/t/google-hangout-link-troubles/613>\
**Category:** DM Notifications\
**Created:** [March 18, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/google-hangout-link-troubles/613 "2016-03-18T19:40:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jbecla](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/jbecla/32/47_2.png) [@jbecla](https://www.rubin.community/u/jbecla)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/google-hangout-link-troubles/613/1 "2016-03-18T19:40:31Z")

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I just wanted to alert these who rely on pre-set google hangouts (like [ls.st/sup](http://ls.st/sup), or [ls.st/nwb](http://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

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**Author:** ![davidciardi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/davidciardi/32/37_2.png) [@davidciardi](https://www.rubin.community/u/davidciardi)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/google-hangout-link-troubles/613/2 "2016-03-18T20:09:51Z")

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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](http://ls.st) from working?

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**Author:** ![mjuric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/mjuric/32/31_2.png) [@mjuric](https://www.rubin.community/u/mjuric)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/google-hangout-link-troubles/613/3 "2016-03-18T20:29:51Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![mjuric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/mjuric/32/31_2.png) [@mjuric](https://www.rubin.community/u/mjuric)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/google-hangout-link-troubles/613/4 "2016-03-18T20:33:15Z")

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I.e., let’s:

- get a list of hangouts aliases that were broken
- create [new hangouts URLs for them](http://www.rubin.community/t/what-are-the-standard-ls-st-hangouts-urls/217/9), 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.

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**Author:** ![ktl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ktl/32/1373_2.png) [@ktl](https://www.rubin.community/u/ktl)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/google-hangout-link-troubles/613/5 "2016-03-24T14:19:01Z")

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Google seems to have fixed these; at least [ls.st/sup](http://ls.st/sup) and [ls.st/nwb](http://ls.st/nwb) are working again.