Google is shutting down Spaces, its experimental group messaging app

Google catches a lot of flak for having too many messaging apps, but there’s another messaging-style app that you almost surely forgot about. It is called Spaces and it’s shutting down on April 17th. Google’s traditional Spring cleaning is starting early — and with it maybe the company is showing it can be a little more focused on its messaging strategy.
Spaces was an attempt to help small groups of people organize conversations around specific topics. It wasn’t so