If this sounds useful to you, then the first thing you need to do is activate Google Chat for your Gmail account. Currently, at least, you need to do it separately on your browser and on your mobile device. Any contacts with whom you previously had chats with via Hangouts will appear in the new Chat box; click on their names, and a small pop-up window in the lower left will show you those previous chats.
Before we go into the specifics of how to use Google Chat, you may notice some other small differences after the refresh. To begin, the icon that looked like a quote mark at the bottom of your left column — which referred to Google Hangouts — will now be replaced by a couple of quote bubbles. And you now have a button on the right of the search box that lets you choose to be active, away, or undisturbed; you can also type in your own status.
People who are invited to your chat will get an email with a link, and will have the option of joining the conversation or blocking it; if they are on Hangouts or Chat, they will get a notification.
A series of icons to the side or below the entry field lets you add emoji, upload a file, add a file from Google Drive, start a video meeting essentially, starting Google Meet , and schedule an event. We regret the error. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week.
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The conversations are spaced relatively far apart and take up way too much screen real estate. The color scheme is blindingly bright. Et cetera. Not only that, all wording is formatted in rows, not in text bubbles. 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. 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.
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