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The one video chat app alternative no ones talking about because the majority of HNers don’t work in Microsoft shops: Teams, with 44 million DAU.
by tozeur 7y ago
The one video chat app alternative no ones talking about because the majority of HNers don’t work in Microsoft shops: Teams, with 44 million DAU.
- taspeotis 7y agoWe use it, it's fine. Although it gets some hate with the executives because we can't have more than four people on screen at any one time. I think they lament they can't have a panopticon of everybody at once? There's a blog post from Microsoft with a nebulous commitment to increase it to nine. Honestly I don't care about seeing who's in the meeting beside who's speaking so four is plenty.
- starfallg 7y agoTrue. Most HNers would use Slack, and most would argue that MS Teams is a poor copy of Slack.
- ccktlmazeltov 7y agoIf you could pick your app would you choose {workplace, zoom, slack} or {yammer, teams, teams} You gotta really love pain if you choose the latter one.
- loudmax 7y agoFocusing on growth first and security later is right out of Microsoft's playbook.
- sgc 7y agoZoom is more like focus on growth by actively undermining security first, and do who knows what later.
- armagon 7y agoI really, really liked Sococo (https://www.sococo.com/ https://www.sococo.com/), which I used at my previous job. The feeling of presence was so key, and not needing to fire up a room and share a link, but instead, just grab a coworker or knock on a door, was so nice. Wish I saw people talking about this one :-) I use Zoom at my current job, and it's fine (except that I can never find the mute and share buttons when I need them), but not magical.
- montroser 7y agoWe've been using https://team.video https://team.video and loving it.
- jseliger 7y agoI wonder if it has a seamless Mac app for download, as Zoom does. I am poking around their site and don't see an obvious link to it.
- macintux 7y agoI ran into a sequence of really odd behaviors with a Teams meeting this week. Step 1: click on the "join this meeting" button in Exchange (incorrectly said Skype with my first draft) Step 2: realize when Teams launches that it has inexplicably taken me to a days-old meeting with a different group Step 3: see a Teams notification that another co-worker has started the correct meeting Step 4: click on that notification, hear it ring, and a woman picks up the phone Step 5: discover that my co-worker had fat-fingered the callback number (he wanted to use his phone for audio), so Teams dialed a complete stranger for me as well as him instead of connecting me to the meeting. That poor woman must have been so terribly confused.