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same. known zoom for a while... the "it just works" and "it has better quality" comments are very surprising to me and got me skeptical. are skype, slack, goto

same. known zoom for a while... the "it just works" and "it has better quality" comments are very surprising to me and got me skeptical. are skype, slack, gotomeeting, hangouts, meet, webex, &c. all really crashing on people now? in a huge conspiracy? things i thought could be the real reason: novelty (for some/most people), popularity (someone online famous/influencer mentioned it), shadow marketing, luck. but wikipedia told me is actually going on: schools have decided that zoom will be the de-facto remote schooling platform. a bunch of young people appropriated the platform it seems. hope that helps. the superiority talk is just that. but now they are in a good position to become better than any other video conferencing software.

markmark 7y ago
I've been working at remote-first companies for about the last four years, my current and previous company independently tested a bunch of video conferencing apps and both settled on zoom. It just works better than the alternatives. Yes better than skype, slack, gotomeeting, hangouts, meet and webex (and teams, since that's the other big one). Sometimes it's call quality, sometimes it's stability, sometimes it's usability, sometimes it's features.
- blondin 7y ago
  good for you but i respectfully disagree. i have also used many video conferencing software, including zoom for many years.
  - Larrikin 7y ago
    So zoom sucks and you've tested the alternatives but don't offer one?
lmm 7y ago
> are skype, slack, gotomeeting, hangouts, meet, webex, &c. all really crashing on people now? in a huge conspiracy? It's astonishing how so much low-quality software gets distributed, but: yes. Hangouts and Slack are a pain to get everyone logged in / invited to. Everything else on your list just breaks a lot. > but wikipedia told me is actually going on: schools have decided that zoom will be the de-facto remote schooling platform. a bunch of young people appropriated the platform it seems. That's a non-explanation. Zoom is popular with young people, sure. Why? The same reason it's popular with everyone else, because it works better.
Loughla 7y ago
I've used everything on that list, except meet, in an institutional setting. 1-on-1, small groups, large groups. The only one that our institution has used that works straight out of the box 100% of the time for everyone who has access to data, is zoom.

markmark 7y ago

I've been working at remote-first companies for about the last four years, my current and previous company independently tested a bunch of video conferencing apps and both settled on zoom. It just works better than the alternatives. Yes better than skype, slack, gotomeeting, hangouts, meet and webex (and teams, since that's the other big one). Sometimes it's call quality, sometimes it's stability, sometimes it's usability, sometimes it's features.

blondin 7y ago
good for you but i respectfully disagree. i have also used many video conferencing software, including zoom for many years.
- Larrikin 7y ago
  So zoom sucks and you've tested the alternatives but don't offer one?

lmm 7y ago

> are skype, slack, gotomeeting, hangouts, meet, webex, &c. all really crashing on people now? in a huge conspiracy? It's astonishing how so much low-quality software gets distributed, but: yes. Hangouts and Slack are a pain to get everyone logged in / invited to. Everything else on your list just breaks a lot. > but wikipedia told me is actually going on: schools have decided that zoom will be the de-facto remote schooling platform. a bunch of young people appropriated the platform it seems. That's a non-explanation. Zoom is popular with young people, sure. Why? The same reason it's popular with everyone else, because it works better.

Loughla 7y ago

I've used everything on that list, except meet, in an institutional setting. 1-on-1, small groups, large groups. The only one that our institution has used that works straight out of the box 100% of the time for everyone who has access to data, is zoom.