What works fine? Chat? I never said it doesn’t work. I said it doesn’t work as a general work concept on mobile. As it has to take up 100% of really estate (give or take ).
Which is fine if you want to be I’m a chat only , and do nothing else, but you can’t you need to basically minimise it, (in a PC term) them say for example play you video , so you’ll can’t keep an eye on chat like you can on pc by just pinning it .
So it doesn’t work for me , as I would only check it every hour or so, meaning I wouldn’t be I’m the live chat, like I would be able to on a laptop/desktop . Hope that makes sense.
Old school chat in a browser just doesn’t work for mobile. Unless you want to keep the chat open and do nothing else. To get a chat ro that actually fits on to a mobile platform at this point you need the chat room to integrate with an app, the chat filers though iether the notification bar, or has a pop out floating box.
I’m not suggesting I want you to look into it, just trying to explain the drawbacks of a desttop HTML chat on mobile as an experience doesent translate over to mobile. It’s just design is an issue , or rather mobiles disign is the issue.
But tbh even dedicated chat apps are flawed , as there notifications get annoying of chat becomes busy. I use to play a statery mobile game and I’m the end I used a second device for chat , to the one of was playing on . Ironically In that case an old school type would be fine, in tjar scenario . But then we have come full circle to have a device just running chat, and having to use a second to do the tasks you was doing. So that highlights how bad an experience of chat is on mobile.
I hope this makes sense. I wasn’t referring it doesn’t work. More it isn’t mobile work flow friendly. For chat to work you need to be able to keep one eye on it, as far as im aware this isn’t available yet.
You can pop a window out Android , (OS version dependant, and decice make,or app dependant ) but then you need good eyes to see what’s being said , and I don’t think you can interact with the pop out untill you go back to full screen , so that also doesent work.
So tbh I think chat on mobile is a non stsrter, monolec ironically given its a communication device , is not good at the traditional chat rooms style.
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