I honestly liked Hangouts way better than Chat. I sometimes don’t get notifications that I have a new message or how many new messages I have. The view of the chat is too simple. I liked how their was a clear separation of messages (my messages on one side, then recipient(s) on the other side). […]
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Zero stars. Forced out of hangouts. Google chat is far less intuitive, infuriating, and extremely glitchy. Only about 20% of the images/files I attempted to send successfully go through. You cannot attach more than one image at a time, the spaces versus chat add extra steps to access your conversations and is clunky. I can […]
Compared to Hangouts, we traveled about half the Earth’s diameter in distance going backwards. Everything in Hangouts was simple, right in one area and easy to access. Now, everything is everywhere, and not to mention that core functions are missing, it’s much slower, I rarely get notifications, and it’s 20 times more tedious to use. […]
Google Chat is the worst. I can’t place my settings to see links in a web browser, I can’t see all images in a chat and when I click on it the image is super huge and I can’t adjust the size, I can’t place more than one image or attachment at a time, I […]
Inferior in nearly every way to Hangouts. I can’t figure out why some of my group chats are under “chats” and some are in “spaces,” and am consequently always looking in the wrong one. The app also can’t navigate to a Space from a push notification if the last thing you were reading was a […]
Not a good replacement for Hangouts. If it were a near 1:1 experience, it would be fine, but now everyone’s messages are on one side, you can’t view pictures that well (thumbnail inadequate, selecting picture opens browser window). Poorly fleshed out, frankly. Microsoft Teams may not be great, but holy cow can they really take […]
I wish I could give it 0 stars. I don’t understand why they wanted to change chats into a commercial like app. It’s a wannabe Microsoft teams. I don’t want to use a platform like that outside of work. Getting rid of the chat bubbles makes reading chats difficult. “history is on” displayed in the […]
Hangouts was better. This chat feature really sucks. The way you send photos sucks. You can only send one at a time. And you can’t click on a photo and scroll through what you’ve already sent. You have to keep scrolling up forever to find it in chat. Not to mention now the text us […]
Forced to use this because they blocked hangouts from working. It’s worse. You can only attach one image at a time. It seems to struggle with sending/playing videos, but succeeds eventually. It splits chats between groups and individuals in different tabs for added time/clicks to access. There are probably other things, but the above is […]
Works, but Hangouts was much better. As other reviewers have said, the lack of left/right chat bubbles isn’t helpful. If someone sends a pic and I view it, then close it and re-open, it seems to have to re-download the pic, every time. I also cannot swipe to view previous pics in the chat. Then, […]
This app is a huge downgrade from hangouts, and I did not have a choice in the matter. I’ve been forced out of using hangouts. Using this app is an accessibility nightmare. I can’t differentiate between who is talking because everyone is listed on the left, even me. There are no longer bubbles to encapsulate […]
Oh wow, we got rid of hangouts for this? File sharing is a mess and sometimes decides to open an external webpage to load videos (why?). Also uploading pictures is a mess too since it doesn’t give the option to choose your preferred file manager or gallery, and it doesn’t even work half of the […]
Google is shooting itself in the foot by killing everything that actually worked. Google Chat is a copy-pasted version of Microsoft Teams. Not a single unique thing about it. That would be all well and good if they weren’t killing Hangouts to make it! Hangouts was never great, but at least it was meh. Google […]
This is a great chatting app and is good for the basics but I feel like it could have some improvements. First, the group chats should have more management options like being able to have the space managers timeout people from talking. Second, once you talk to someone, you can’t remove them from your list […]
It’s an adjustment from Hangouts for sure. Chat is clunky in comparison and doesn’t work as consistently. I want the option to combine chats and rooms into one page. I just want to see all of my most recent messages at the top of the page regardless of whether it’s a “room” or a “chat”. […]
Such A GREAT APP Google chat is one of the best platforms to interact and enjoy talking with one another, you can change the fonts of your text ,put cool GIF , make meetings in an instant click . And the best of all if you think that no one saw your message in a […]
The entire conversation is left justified, instead of my chats on the right and everyone else on the left. Since there’s not even individual chat bubbles, it’s hard to scroll through and annoying to try to read through the conversation. Also, only being able to attach 1 photo at a time is a waste of […]
I mean, if forced to use, ok, but really, the chat kinda sucks! If forcing a replacement, the least it could be is better than what is replaced. For desktop, there’s no browser extension and the desktop app is basically just a browser without tabs. What is spaces and why? If this is something for […]
It’s like they took Hangouts and thought “What if we just made everything a little bit worse” Can only send one photo at a time, chats are indistinguishable from eachother, can’t save photos by holding down on them anymore, grouptexts & individual texts are separated (which could be good for some, but it’s a pain […]
Review would be way better if notifications would always appear, as I’ve had a few occurrences of them not showing, leaving me unaware of what my friends and peers are messaging. I’ve also lost access to the ability to send voice messages. I was able to before, and I’m unsure of if it was the […]