Well over a decade in my case. The new chat is an exercise in frustration.
My favourite bug (on Android) is when you paste a URL, hit enter to send, then start typing your message related to the URL. Because it wants to process the URL, look it up for a preview, it doesn't send straight away. However when it does, it also includes your absolutely not submitted and presently in draft stage beginnings of your next message.
Unreal indeed.
I set up my wife's elderly parents in Japan with Hangouts years ago so we could video call them by actually.. you know.. hitting the 'call' button to ring their computer. This worked seamlessly for years with no effort on their part. When the computer 'rang' they knew to click answer. After hearing that hangouts was going away (what is it like 3 times that's been delayed?) I moved them to Google Chat but boy was that a mistake. You cannot 'ring' the other caller anymore and have to set up a meeting for each call. Or you have to set up a perpetual meeting which they can always go in to.
This has caused us to miss many video calls and constant frustration for my wife trying to explain to them how to use that function. Why in the world does Google remove features in new solutions when they deprecate an old one? Can't they simply make a list of things that work in the old app and check them off in the new one? I realize zoom is all trendy now but geez...
sundvor|4 years ago
My favourite bug (on Android) is when you paste a URL, hit enter to send, then start typing your message related to the URL. Because it wants to process the URL, look it up for a preview, it doesn't send straight away. However when it does, it also includes your absolutely not submitted and presently in draft stage beginnings of your next message.
Unreal.
tramtrist|4 years ago
Shoulda just stuck with Skype or something else.
thfuran|4 years ago
graderjs|4 years ago