New Zoom Chat - I want the old chat where I can see all the private messages at one glance

It was probably designed by someone who never runs large meetings on Zoom.

Extremely bad set-up. I want the old chat back!! It's virtually unusable. 

Zoom has officially replied it! It is fixed!!!

Their official reply to me via email:

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@AudreyW1 wrote:

I do not have time to click person by person during a discussion meeting.
Most times their suggestions come to me (the host) via the chat and I do not want others to see their inputs.

Now, I have to click name by name to check their inputs. Ridiculous when I have almost 100 people in the meeting.
I need to be able to read all incoming messages quickly at a glance as we are discussing stuff.

Please allow us to choose if we want to see all messages at a glance instead of having to click user by user!

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FIXED BY ZOOM! This is their official reply: To fully resolve the issue, please disable “Meeting chat - Private group messages” from the web portal settings to revert back the in-meeting chat behavior. It is enabled by default.

Hello Community,

Thank you for posting your feedback. We have shared this with the product team.

I just want the "old" chat box restored. Easier, better especially when hosting large Zoom meetings.

Same problem. Very disappointed with this useless chat update. It’s making Zoom almost impossible to use for large classes. Time to look for better alternatives.

i have the same problem. and i cannot find the setting referenced in the suggested "solution". where can i find it. 

I agree that leaving that setting off is likely cleaner but, if you are trying to gather that much feedback from a large group, perhaps a Zoom Poll would be a better option? https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0066150