[ghaff]

And Google Chat is pretty decent IMO if you're committed to Google Workspace. How you use it is probably a bit cultural. Where I work--or at least the teams I interact with--it seems to have developed into use Chat if you want a somewhat near-time response rather than email. At least the people I know rarely text these days and essentially never call on voice. Group chats vary by context.

[garciasn]

The UX is absolutely horrendous. Don’t even get me started about the 4096 character limit or the fact that URLs in code blocks breaks the code block.

How about not being able to sort the user list by whatever order you want or folding groups? What about it creating “Spaces” for chats with more than one contact and forcing you to “leave” if you want to hide it to keep your list clean?

Maybe we should talk about how they recently started capturing, poorly, formatted text when you paste, forcing a paste with match style to strip it and no way to remove that default.

Maybe we should talk about the horrendous fact that it’s a web app.

Maybe we could add in there’s no user configuration ability at all.

Fuck Google Chat. It’s a horrendous piece of shit and it needs to die, not third party support.

[ghaff]

>Maybe we should talk about the horrendous fact that it’s a web app.

I don't need more apps. Unless there's a compelling reason to have one, I'd much rather be able to sit down at any PC and have the same experience. (I do have the app installed on my phone for notifications but I have those turned off on my PCs anyway.)

I don't really need chat apps in general. You can send me an email but Gchat is fine because it's integrated with Gmail.

[thawaya3113]

No one’s against the existence of a web app.

But most people seem to prefer the desktop versions of chat apps.

They really should have both.

[m-p-3]

I'm still annoyed at how the "Markdown" syntax in Google Chat is not following the CommonMark specifications.