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I'm sorry, but Hangouts is terrible. It sucks on every level. The UI is so bad it's hard to believe. I wish I could sit down with their product team to get an e
by rand_r 5y ago
I'm sorry, but Hangouts is terrible. It sucks on every level. The UI is so bad it's hard to believe. I wish I could sit down with their product team to get an explanation for how badly Hangouts is designed. Takes about 10s to see all the problems with it compared to Zoom.
- robrenaud 5y agoMy 94 year old grandpa would constantly struggle with zoom, to the point that we'd schedule him 15 minutes early to avoid half the meeting being about zoom problems. Hangouts worked well for him first try. The auto captioning also works quite a bit better with hangouts, which is good for people with hearing loss.
- aqme28 5y agoCan you be more specific about the UI problems? It seems pretty equivalent to Zoom to me.
- rand_r 5y agoTwo words: Gallery view. Like what in the actual fuck. How are they unable to do a simple grid properly? It’s just rectangles. The UI is there to copy from Zoom even.
- SahAssar 5y agoI don't think having the gallery view grid less gracefully handling non-even numbers of participants justifies saying "The UI is so bad it's hard to believe".
- john_yaya 5y agoI used to agree with you, until I discovered that (surprise, surprise) Hangouts works great on Chrome, not so much on other browsers.