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Group chat
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 10 threads.
People raised many different problems with Group chat, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Easy to send a message to the wrong group with similar names2024-06-13
- Key details like hotel booking info get buried; must scroll back a year to find them2024-06-13
- Photos and videos degrade and messages randomly drop in mixed iPhone-Android group chats2023-02-21
- Each message triggers a separate notification ding, interrupting concentration repeatedly2022-03-11
- Group texting is terrible, and people must install an app to join group chats2021-04-28
- Can't group chat across people using different apps like Skype, SMS, and Facebook2017-09-03
- Massive group text threads are too hard to keep up with, causing anxiety2017-04-19
- Conversation spread across general rooms forces users to scroll up through old messages2016-10-24
- Input box overlaps the chat when the window is resized2013-03-06
- Attaching a file in the chat is extremely painful and rarely works2013-03-06
- The + sign in the upload box header is mistaken for the upload button2011-01-15
- Domain name could confuse some users2009-02-12