Nexus 5 - Hangouts is slow and unresponsive making texting inefficicent. What can I do?

[AC Question]

I often get a message "Hangouts is not responding" at least 50% of time that I try to use it.

 

[Sebastian Acujboaei]

Try to uninstall all updates.

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[Sebastian47]

Try to do what other Sebastian said Did it and it worked.

Sebastian^