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This app sucks!!!!! Sure I can get messages, but it doesn't give me a notification that a message has been sent. Everything is updated, everything is turned on to receive notifications, I don't get notified of messages. Fix this damn app already, this has been going on from the beginning. In response to YOUR response;;; did you NOTICE that I had mentioned that all the settings are set to receive notifications?? If I could remove the one star I gave,I would remove it for your flippant response.
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It's worse than Google Hangouts. It's frustrating this app is being pushed when Hangouts was much better for the majority of people. Image sharing is not great (only one image at a time), though Chat is better at sending large files like videos. I can't find read receipts. My hangouts groups turned into Spaces, for some reason. All of the texts appear on the same side, including your own (this is a small thing but really bugs me!). I really like the addition of the file sharing tab, however.
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This has been most people challenge on here
Google chat here, seems a bit complicated as compared to that of hangouts, I said this because, there’s not difference in the chat when you’re chatting with a friend or a family member… unlike hangouts, senders text is always at right and receivers text is always at left, that alone make it simple for you to understand your conversation easier, but here’s the case, google chat normally has the two so close to each other and also on one part of the chat surface. Another view to your app so far, I don’t know if others might’ve also realized that as well. The features “block and report” , that should be two things because they’re of different meanings, so it shouldn’t play a single role when you tap on it. For example, I want to block someone for a while, not permanently, but immediately I tap on that feature “block and report”, the person’s gmail is been taken out of google and can’t be found again to replace. Unlike messenger or any other with similar features , you can block someone and unblock to chat with that same person and can also report that person if you find that person ain’t the person you wanted or if that person is trying to scam you…. You guys really need to work on that, either than that, recommend your app as the best app ever.
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Disappointing after Hangouts
Google Chat added the ability to have rooms where specific topic threads can be created. That’s really nice and a feature we were hoping for coming from Hangouts. Unfortunately, that’s about where the improvements end. 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. 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. It’s completely unwieldy with more than 20 active conversations. The alphabetical sorting of conversations means hunting down the person you were just talking to. The conversations are spaced relatively far apart and take up way too much screen real estate. The color scheme is blindingly bright. Et cetera. 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. If you’re on the mobile app only, ok. If you’re hoping to do more with it, you should look elsewhere for a more thoughtfully designed, and scalable, communication method.
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The least user friendly invention since the square wheel
1. 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. 2. 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. Not only that, all wording is formatted in rows, not in text bubbles. This can make comments and messages blur together and get confusing if you aren’t used to that kind of messaging. 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. 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. I’m sure in time I’ll get used to it, but I do think that this transition could have panned out better.
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The god of Info Stealing mucked this up
This stuff works on Windows but not on my iPad. They couldn’t send me a code by 2-Fascist ID, no matter how many times I asked. Considering how much of my info they’ve stolen and sold, that’s pretty incompetent of them. They’re gonna have to go back to Big Tech School. Or they might get bought by a Rich Capitalist with a sense of Right and Wrong, and change radically.
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Review for google chat
I like the app! The only thing I don’t like about it is I can’t seem to delete my old messages!
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Chat gained some, but lost more
I have been using Google Hangouts for over 2 years as one of my main messaging Apps. About a year ago I discovered Google Chat, but didn’t think much of it. I kept using Hangouts as normal for a while. Then I saw a message pop up in Hangouts that said I should switch to Chat in Gmail. I explored Chat and found some interesting features, but major drawbacks. Many or all of those drawbacks are still here today. Here they are: 1. Video Calling isn’t in Chat like it was in Hangouts, it takes you to meet if you click the video call thing 2. Read receipts don’t work on Group conversations 3. Typing receipts only work if both are on Chat 4. You can never see if someone is on a conversation at a certain moment (Hangouts shows that they are on currently by brightening a person’s profile pic) 5. Whoever is the space manager of a group conversation has too much power, they can’t be removed and with a single tap they can remove and delete the conversation for everyone else 6. In group conversations, even if someone has left the group, they can still see all recent messages on the group without rejoining (not including photos). 7. Hangout’s awesome stickers aren’t on Chat 8. This is mainly a preference, but I think that Hangouts has a much better aesthetic than Chat. I like how you can easily see the separate messages in Hangouts, I wish Chat did that. My opinion is that Google should keep Hangouts and bring over some Chat features or they should keep Chat and bring over Hangouts features (although I like the aesthetic of Hangouts much better than Chat). We all know that that is very unlikely tho 🥲 I chose two stars because it’s not all bad, but there’s a lot that Chat could do better. Google please listen to me that Chat should bring some of the great features that Hangouts had!
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It's worse than Google Hangouts. It's frustrating this app is being pushed when Hangouts was much better for the majority of people. Image sharing is not great (only one image at a time), though Chat is better at sending large files like videos. I can't find read receipts. My hangouts groups turned into Spaces, for some reason. All of the texts appear on the same side, including your own (this is a small thing but really bugs me!). I really like the addition of the file sharing tab, however.
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This has been most people challenge on here
Google chat here, seems a bit complicated as compared to that of hangouts, I said this because, there’s not difference in the chat when you’re chatting with a friend or a family member… unlike hangouts, senders text is always at right and receivers text is always at left, that alone make it simple for you to understand your conversation easier, but here’s the case, google chat normally has the two so close to each other and also on one part of the chat surface. Another view to your app so far, I don’t know if others might’ve also realized that as well. The features “block and report” , that should be two things because they’re of different meanings, so it shouldn’t play a single role when you tap on it. For example, I want to block someone for a while, not permanently, but immediately I tap on that feature “block and report”, the person’s gmail is been taken out of google and can’t be found again to replace. Unlike messenger or any other with similar features , you can block someone and unblock to chat with that same person and can also report that person if you find that person ain’t the person you wanted or if that person is trying to scam you…. You guys really need to work on that, either than that, recommend your app as the best app ever.
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Disappointing after Hangouts
Google Chat added the ability to have rooms where specific topic threads can be created. That’s really nice and a feature we were hoping for coming from Hangouts. Unfortunately, that’s about where the improvements end. 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. 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. It’s completely unwieldy with more than 20 active conversations. The alphabetical sorting of conversations means hunting down the person you were just talking to. The conversations are spaced relatively far apart and take up way too much screen real estate. The color scheme is blindingly bright. Et cetera. 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. If you’re on the mobile app only, ok. If you’re hoping to do more with it, you should look elsewhere for a more thoughtfully designed, and scalable, communication method.
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The least user friendly invention since the square wheel
1. 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. 2. 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. Not only that, all wording is formatted in rows, not in text bubbles. This can make comments and messages blur together and get confusing if you aren’t used to that kind of messaging. 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. 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. I’m sure in time I’ll get used to it, but I do think that this transition could have panned out better.
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There are so many features about hangouts that are missing in chat. I like the name change, but that's about it. I really miss the call and video call features. Sending a link to Google meet doesn't actually call the person, and it means they have to have yet another app on their phone. Waste of storage space. Why the change? Why remove a perfectly good app and then replace it with several less useful apps?
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This app sucks!!!!! Sure I can get messages, but it doesn't give me a notification that a message has been sent. Everything is updated, everything is turned on to receive notifications, I don't get notified of messages. Fix this damn app already, this has been going on from the beginning. In response to YOUR response;;; did you NOTICE that I had mentioned that all the settings are set to receive notifications?? If I could remove the one star I gave,I would remove it for your flippant response.
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It is often stated that progress requires two steps forward and another step back. The move from Google Hangouts to Google Chat was maybe 5 steps back. Many of the features that were available in hangouts are not even available (or the product is so unintuitive that the features can't be found). The "desktop app" isn't any better either. Terrible move overall.
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Hangouts was better
Hello there, let me start this by first saying that I haven’t used gchat all that much so maybe I’m not quite used to all it’s features yet but I think no matter what my point will stand: hangouts was better. I can’t frankly think of a reason why google would take something that had been used for so long and was very effective and completely change it, especially now when people are relying on online chatting platforms even more. I have used hangouts for 6 years and have never had any complaint with them, my school used it profusely for contact between teachers and students (as well as between students for group projects and clubs). Relating to this, a club I am a part of that heavily relied on hangouts as a way to communicate meeting times and important information is now struggling to figure out how to use gchat the same way - again, we haven’t used gchat that much so maybe we’re missing an important feature, but if it was truly that important it should have been more obvious to know.
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Need More Work: Clunky App
The app is clunky when trying to send pics. There is a see delayed repsonse time from when you upload a picture. The send button starts to spin like it is thinking if it should upload your pic. When the send button is available after the spinning. Then you're able to send the pic. After 3-4 minutes, that's when you find out if your picture has sent or not. It doesn't show you trying to send the pic as a preview in the chat thread like it would for hangouts to let you know that is trying to send but can't for unforseen reasons. Instead, the person on the other end of the chat asks if you ever going to send the pic. When looking on my end, after 7 minutes has passed, then I receive a small message asking if I want to resend or delete. This need to be fixed. It's frustrating and my friends and family are experiencing the same issues.
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I really don't like this app because you cant make or recieve phone calls and you have to go through a ehole mess of channels just to save a picture. Honestly, I'd rather use Hangouts because, at least I know I cant receive phone calls and video calls. And if i need to use another email address, it is easier to switch. I can't get Google chat to work, so I guess I'll have to delete it.
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