This experience is awful compared to hangouts. Hangouts was a gold standard and chat is 100 steps backward. I feel like 2005 aim client would be an improvement over this. Angry I was forced to change to chat. I'll likely be moving my group chats and primary communications to discord. This is awful. *edit* Upon further use after being forced over, i found out the hard way that this isnt compatible with android auto. seriously google, you cant make YOUR OWN CHAT APP compatible with YOUR OWN AUTO integration. Now i am forced to either miss important conversations or break local laws to send/receive messages in my automobile. It is SHOCKING that alphabet would allow an app as bad as this to exist with their brand on it.