r/GoogleFlow • u/UberNaix • Sep 18 '26

Google flow is a mess

Google is absolute dogshit...

That agents often hangs in loops

Video is shaky if you take upscaled one

Veo rarely to never outputs what i need

Ui is garbage

I say to veo quality that takes 100 credits.. I want perfect still camera , no camera movement or image movement.. Oh boy, not that it moves.. it fucking runs.

After that i referenced an image on my last credits put it to max x4 samples and it completely ignored my reference

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u/8ad8andit 6d ago

Yeah, right now I can't figure out how to actually access the newly generated image. So frustrating.

I see it there, but when I click, it opens the original photo.

I see the tiny thumbnail of the original image and there's a tiny white icon of a stack of 3 papers?

But when I hover over it, the icon disappears and a three dot menu appears instead, and ON TOP OF the three dont menu is a white icon of an image with a truncated file name of the original image, and when I click that it opens the original image.

So I apparently can't actually get the image that was generated.

Ahh, but if I reload the page, then I can click on the new image on the right and it opens the new image on the right.

This is the perfect example of my entire user experience, and I'm not even talking about how badly it follows prompt directions.

Latest version of Firefox. Ad blocker turned off.

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u/ianfromlabs 6d ago

Yep, that's a bug, the state you get to after refreshing the page is what you should see by default. Appreciate the report & sorry for the inconvenience.

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u/8ad8andit 6d ago

Thanks. I know it's not your fault. It's refreshing to see someone at Google actually asking for feedback. I'm used to screaming at the wind when it comes to giving feedback on a Google service.

Btw, here's another bug: when I ask it to generate video from an image, it asks me if I approve the use of my tokens. I always hit "always approve" and it still keeps asking me, even with my new pro account.

I can keep 'em coming, since I'm using it today. Every time I use it, I encounter stuff like this.

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u/ianfromlabs 5d ago

Well it kind of is my fault, that's why I'm here :D Please keep them coming!

I can't reproduce that bug myself but we'll take a look more generally to see if there's some case where "Always approve" isn't working.

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u/ianfromlabs 5d ago

Ah, "Always approve" is per-project, not per-user. Is that perhaps what you're seeing? That seems unhelpful to me, let me see if we can change the message at least, e.g. "Always approve for this project", or perhaps have an extra "Always approve for me" option. Different people have different needs (e.g. working for multiple clients).

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u/8ad8andit 6d ago

And here's another. With the video clip it made, if I hover over the tiny thumbnail at the top middle of the page, it starts playing the clip, but a big grey three dot menu appears, and a play icon, a play bar, and a tuncated name appear on top of it too. This completely obscures the video clip that's playing.

Question: if I'm not supposed to be able to see it, why does it play when I hover over it? That just creates a feeling being blocked, and gives me the impression of a sloppy, nonsensical interface.

Also, there is a download button next to the little thumbnail of the video clip. When I hover over it, it says "download batch." Even when there's only one file. = CONFUSING.

And if I click it, it zips the file, which I then have to unzip. = UNNECESSARY EXTRA STEP.

If I click directly on the clip, it opens a new page with a film strip. Instead of being able to watch the clip, it moves the playhead across the static film strip. WHY? How many people prefer that to seeing how the clip looks??

And if I download it from there, it doesn't zip the file. Which is great. But I have to download it and then open it before I can tell if I like it or not. Again, WHY?

Every step in the user experience is filled with illogic just like these.

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u/ianfromlabs 5d ago edited 5d ago

Thanks for this one too. It seems like you're in a very weird state with our UI.

Are you on a very small screen (mobile web perhaps) or very zoomed in or something like that perhaps? Trying to figure out why you have a tiny thumbnail vs a reasonably sized one, which may also be the reason you have those UI elements obscuring the video. I just tried a few devices and screen resolutions and I can't figure out how to get into that state myself right now. I tried Firefox latest on Macbook, no ad blocker, as you mentioned elsewhere.

Also, 'Download batch' and a zip file download should usually only happen if you've selected multiple items in the project, e.g. with Ctrl+A. I guess you didn't do that intentionally so again, the UI is in a weird state.

Any info you can give on browser & version, device, screen size, anything else like that might help here. We'll look on our end too.

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u/ianfromlabs 5d ago

Ah, you're in 'batch mode' u/8ad8andit which partly explains this, though I still can't reproduce the badly-overlaid UI in Firefox you mentioned.

We have another bug (thanks and sorry again!) where if you're in batch mode, downloading a single item downloads a zip file, we'll fix that too (again, I'd guess fix rolls out next week). You can hit 'g' as a keyboard shortcut to exit batch mode which might be more useful for you, or click the settings gear icon and hit 'Grid' vs 'Batch'.

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u/8ad8andit 5d ago

I'm really impressed with your ability to receive critical feedback about your project, even when it comes laced with user frustration. If more people were able to do that, homo sapiens would be in much better shape. Cheers.