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Hey Google Meet? Thanks for making my Thursday all the bit harder by removing the "return to main room" option when moderating a breakout room session in your platform. This was aweful and unintuitive. The "activities" tab > breakout rooms > main room heading showed me the folks in the main room, but no option to "join main room" at all listed. I was frantically hunting around with my camera and microphone off whilst the people probably wondered why I hovered around in their room. Just wow.
Workaround: I ended up joining through Google Meet on the phone. When I did, Google meet sent an alert, "you've been invited to join Breakout Room (X)" and I hit "cancel" there. Then, I was placed into the main room. Facepalm. The last time I did one of these about 2-3 months ago, there was a clear "return to main room" button at the top of the screen, and it's just not there now. I'm so, so disappointed by this.
Just thought of something ironic: Google broke breakout rooms. Ha.