Mastodawn

ctrg190 Jul 1, 2024

draft - voice messages for google chat -

"To send a voice message in Google Chat, users must first tap the microphone icon and begin recording. Unlike other apps, users are not forced to hold down the microphone..."

this is the way. the requirement to hold down the mic button on screen is weird / unapproachable especially for some users. so the ability to just tap once to record makes more sense.

please can we have the option for all free users? thank you.

https://www.news18.com/tech/google-chat-introduces-voice-message-feature-for-select-users-how-it-works-8831044.html

Google Chat Introduces Voice Message Feature For Select Users: How It Works

Google Chat is offering the new feature to select users for now but the free accounts will have to wait for a while.

News18

bs2 Sep 21, 2023

> Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, and Zulip are three of the most advanced integrated messaging platforms, and each has many integrations and client applications for various computing platforms, just like Slack. Even more ambitious is the Matrix project, which has defined an open rich messaging standard, with its Riot client and Synapse reference server.
https://davelane.nz/why-slack-better-and-why-open-communities-shouldnt-use-it
#Slack #SlackAlternatives #MatrixProjcet #RiotClient #SynapseServer #RocketChat #Mattermost #Zulip
/HT @lightweight

Why Slack is better, and why open communities shouldn't use it

There's a newish (last few years) "team communication" platform called "Slack" that most tech (and many non-tech) people use to communicate in asynchronous text, images, voice, and video in business t

Dave Lane

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