![]() ![]() Why on earth does it keep a copy of every link or image I send in the chat text box? Why would I want that when it’s right there as the last thing I sent? I hate having to delete it just to continue the conversation. Hangouts shared videos right away, so I know they don’t have to do it like this. Here are all the problems I’ve encountered: - Can’t share files unless they’re in Google Drive (Google trying to limit you to using their products) - Videos are uploaded when you share them, which means it takes FOREVER. I’m so tired of this nonsensical app that I have to say something. Once again, I’m waiting a ridiculous amount of time for a friend’s video to upload in Google Chat so I can watch it. 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. 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. I don’t think calls even connect.Google Chat added the ability to have rooms where specific topic threads can be created. Still the Hangouts extension in Brave shows those empty drop-downs, resulting in no audio in either direction. So far, I’ve tried manually enabling every relevant ‘Site Setting’ in Brave for, , and, as well as whitelisting Google’s cookies as that post suggested. Granted, he was on Linux and talking about Google Chrome. Went back to settings and blocked third party cookies, removed the extension, added it back and was back at square one with hangouts failing to connect. To see this in action, I allowed third party cookies, removed the extension, added it from the Chrome Store, and was able to make a call as well as see the microphone and speakers. Hi manually enabling auto-play did fix the Hangouts web site issue! But the Hangouts Chrome extension still doesn’t work (it shows an empty drop-down for both the Microphone and Speaker setting).Īfter a few hours, I found it was the third party cookies preventing it from working. Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu): No impact on audio.Īctual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):Īctual result is difficult because no screenshot between working and non working audio… It looks the same! I tried doing this with shields up and shields down. No audio, I can select between various audio out options, but none of them work. Open and start a call, “Join or Start a Meeting” and the same problem. ![]() Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. I can choose various Audio Out options, and click to ‘test’ sound, but I get no audio out. I can hear audio from sites like YouTube, Etc, but when I create a call on Hangouts, or Hangouts Meet, or with the Hangouts Extension in Brave, I get no audio. ![]()
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