I received a text via the Google Voice app on my Android phone. It was from my brother Ricky asking for math help. I promptly navigated to http://voice.google.com as usual to load the web interface and respond easier via the computer. Only I was redirected to https://support.google.com/chat/answer/3379791…

After recently reading articles such as Google Voice gets MMS support, hinting at a future merger with Hangouts, it seemed like things were getting better for Google Voice, but now I see they have apparently done away with the old interface. The only reason I opted not to migrate my Google Voice texting to Hangouts was because Google did not provide a facility to migrate the text history. But now I can’t even access it.

Update: I found out this was apparently somehow tied to one of my Google sessions, for I got back into the interface after repeated logging out and back in. Phew! Perhaps Google needs to make a more useful help page if they are going to automatically redirect people trying to access their text history.