I’m sure in time I’ll get used to it, but I do think that this transition could have panned out better. Honestly, the only good thing I could find about chats that was nice was the dark mode (something google hangouts doesn’t have.) This is a big switch for a lot of hangouts users, and I wish that they would make it more manageable so that we could personalize it better. In summary, hangouts is far more manageable and user friendly, and personally I think that chats should have merged with hangouts so that we could get the best of both worlds, instead if all of us being shoved into this circus of a site. This can make comments and messages blur together and get confusing if you aren’t used to that kind of messaging. Not only that, all wording is formatted in rows, not in text bubbles. All wording is on one side of the screen, unlike a normal texting chat design (like discord) - while some might be used to this it can get seriously confusing, and there’s no way to personalize it to make it easier to read.
It separates one-on-one conversations and group chat rooms into two different sections, so you’re constantly switching back and forth to check on everything.Ģ. The least user friendly invention since the square wheelġ. If you’re hoping to do more with it, you should look elsewhere for a more thoughtfully designed, and scalable, communication method. If you’re only using the phone app and only for chatting with a limited number of friends socially, which is clearly the use case they have decided to laser focus on, you’ll be fine with it. The conversations are spaced relatively far apart and take up way too much screen real estate. The alphabetical sorting of conversations means hunting down the person you were just talking to. It’s completely unwieldy with more than 20 active conversations.
GOOGLE MESSAGES ON MAC PROFESSIONAL
I used Hangouts and now use Chat in a professional environment, for more casual short form comms, and it’s clear after 6 weeks of heavy use that Chat wasn’t designed for anything more than light usage.
Google Chat is at its best on the mobile app, but if you’re using it regularly, across mobile and in the desktop chrome extension, you’ll quickly see the questionable choices made by the developers. Unfortunately, that’s about where the improvements end. That’s really nice and a feature we were hoping for coming from Hangouts. Google Chat added the ability to have rooms where specific topic threads can be created.
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