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It's only available in the paid version, but slack's video conferencing works pretty well.

by RandallBrown 7y ago

scotth 7y ago
Yeah, I saw that. Got pretty close to pushing the button on it after this episode, and probably will soon.
dewey 7y ago
For me Slack's video conferencing never really worked that well. Even Google Meet worked better.
adabsurdo 7y ago
Ugh ... It sorta works, sure, but doesn't hold a candle to zoom in terms of overall video and audio quality and reliability.
aidos 7y ago
It works, but it burns through so much CPU your computer will be a gibbering mess. There's some pretty silly inefficiencies going on, for example; if you switch away to another window, they display a small video player while keeping the big one running the background. Each time you switch into screen sharing mode, they drag you back to the app again. If you draw on the screen, someone has screwed up their linear algebra so you end up seeing double with an extra copy of what you're drawing, in totally the wrong place. Annoyingly it's a bit too convenient, so going out of band is a pain.
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- leecb 7y ago
  I regularly have complaints that people can't hear me over my laptop's fan when using slack video conferencing, or jokes about hair driers. Computer is a MBP16. Seems like they need to get their CPU use under control.
  - jachee 7y ago
    You could also get a headset instead of yelling at your built-in mic. As a 100% remote employee, even before Covid, the coworkers with headsets are much easier to understand, and have less background/foreground noise. As a headset user myself, no one ever asks me to repeat myself, notices when I type, or hears anything not within an inch of my mouth. Plus, I've got a physical mute switch for instant, unambiguous mute, as-needed.
paxys 7y ago
It works great for 1:1 and small group conversations, but its max meeting size (15 people I think) is an immediate disqualifier. We regularly have hundreds of people on Zoom calls with no issues.
lostmyoldone 7y ago
YMMV, but for me ut turns my computer into a simulation of a space heater even when I'm not sharing my screen, and those gigantic unhidable toolbars makes me feel like I'm playing whack a mole more than working a times. Oh, and yes,I "almost forgot" ! How to they even physically manage to get multiple seconds latency at times, when everyone in the call is in the same city, and where the worst connection on the call is at about 20Mbit? Are they just buffering for the heck of it, why not simply drop some frames if you get behind?
twic 7y ago
There's no video in the Android client, though (not sure about iOS). Zoom and Meet can both do that.

It's only available in the paid version, but slack's video conferencing works pretty well.

scotth 7y ago

Yeah, I saw that. Got pretty close to pushing the button on it after this episode, and probably will soon.

dewey 7y ago

For me Slack's video conferencing never really worked that well. Even Google Meet worked better.

adabsurdo 7y ago

Ugh ... It sorta works, sure, but doesn't hold a candle to zoom in terms of overall video and audio quality and reliability.

aidos 7y ago

It works, but it burns through so much CPU your computer will be a gibbering mess. There's some pretty silly inefficiencies going on, for example; if you switch away to another window, they display a small video player while keeping the big one running the background. Each time you switch into screen sharing mode, they drag you back to the app again. If you draw on the screen, someone has screwed up their linear algebra so you end up seeing double with an extra copy of what you're drawing, in totally the wrong place. Annoyingly it's a bit too convenient, so going out of band is a pain.

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leecb 7y ago
I regularly have complaints that people can't hear me over my laptop's fan when using slack video conferencing, or jokes about hair driers. Computer is a MBP16. Seems like they need to get their CPU use under control.
- jachee 7y ago
  You could also get a headset instead of yelling at your built-in mic. As a 100% remote employee, even before Covid, the coworkers with headsets are much easier to understand, and have less background/foreground noise. As a headset user myself, no one ever asks me to repeat myself, notices when I type, or hears anything not within an inch of my mouth. Plus, I've got a physical mute switch for instant, unambiguous mute, as-needed.

paxys 7y ago

It works great for 1:1 and small group conversations, but its max meeting size (15 people I think) is an immediate disqualifier. We regularly have hundreds of people on Zoom calls with no issues.

lostmyoldone 7y ago

YMMV, but for me ut turns my computer into a simulation of a space heater even when I'm not sharing my screen, and those gigantic unhidable toolbars makes me feel like I'm playing whack a mole more than working a times. Oh, and yes,I "almost forgot" ! How to they even physically manage to get multiple seconds latency at times, when everyone in the call is in the same city, and where the worst connection on the call is at about 20Mbit? Are they just buffering for the heck of it, why not simply drop some frames if you get behind?

twic 7y ago

There's no video in the Android client, though (not sure about iOS). Zoom and Meet can both do that.