Google Chat

Google Chat feels basic and limited when it comes to status messages. While you can technically type up to 64 characters, the interface often truncates longer messages, so most of what you write isn’t fully visible. Unlike other platforms, there’s no reliable way to make your status stand out or fully readable in all views. Overall, it works for simple communication, but the status feature feels half-baked and frustrating if you want to share more than a few words. For a feature meant to express

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 businesses that use Google products, leave it on that side of things. Setting up groups worked perfectly fine. No separate space needed.

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 my time. Furthermore, the video chat isn't convenient nor is it easy to utilize. Overall, a junk app.

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". And like someone else said, I miss being able to see who has seen the messages.

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 Chat removed the side separation of chats, doesn't allow you to send more than one image at a time, you can't scroll between images, and in general is not a personal communication app. Bad.