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Not because they have the best quality, most secure, or most reliable product, though. So rather than cut them some slack and wait, this is a good opportunity t
by hashkb 6y ago
Not because they have the best quality, most secure, or most reliable product, though. So rather than cut them some slack and wait, this is a good opportunity to explore alternatives.
- Kinrany 6y agoLet's explore. What alternatives are there?
- fergbrain 6y agoJitsi, WebEx, Microsoft Teams
- ralfd 6y agoOk, they do have the best product..
- collyw 6y agoI like Jitsi better than Zoom. No install needed. Only thing is that it makes my CPU run hot. Any reason you think Zoom is better?
- mey 6y agoGoogle Meet
- moooo99 6y agoMy university uses Blackboard Collab, its a pretty solid solution imho and apparently integrates nicely into Moodle.
- Akronymus 6y agoJitsi running on matrix/riot/element works pretty well IME. Dunno if schools would be able to provide the necessary HW/funding for full day streaming though.
- epanchin 6y agoWebex. No temporary unmute. Can’t see myself, why can’t I be a full size panel? Jisti. Can’t dial in. Utterly useless for anyone with bad internet for this reason.
- jamessb 6y ago> Jisti. Can’t dial in. Utterly useless for anyone with bad internet for this reason. You can dial in (at least for a call on https://meet.jit.si https://meet.jit.si - I don't about self-hosted instances). Click the person symbol ('Invite more people') in the bottom-right of the window, and a modal dialog will appear with a phone number and PIN code to enter. If you click 'more numbers' you will be shown alternative phone numbers for many countries (UK, US, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Switzerland).
- junkrat002 6y agoI prefer Google Meet
- Lunatic666 6y agoI'm actually always surprised how well AWS Chime [0] works. Probably because not too many people use it. [0]: https://aws.amazon.com/chime https://aws.amazon.com/chime
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoThe only person I know who uses Chime works at AWS, and even they hate it.
- stu2010 6y agoLarge parts of Amazon finally got the go-ahead to use Slack internally instead of Chime.
- Lunatic666 6y agoBut at least they're dogfooding – the feature list is really short, but the quality is always good. I also wouldn't want to use it as my only conference tool, but if zoom is down, it makes a good backup.
- jimbob45 6y agoSkype
- briandear 6y agoGroup FaceTime.
- dylan604 6y agoTypically, FaceTime requires knowing people's personal contact info. Zoom,Google,etc have generic looking URL for people to join without giving up personal contact details. I don't necessarily need everyone I work with having my personal contact info.
- patentatt 6y agoI’d argue most reliable for the most people, however. Even if that’s only because many people already have the client installed and are accustomed to it. It’s not completely random that zoom is so popular.
- joekrill 6y agoThat's debatable. Perhaps not the most secure, but possibly the best quality and most reliable (to this point, at least). Depends how you define quality, but the ease of use and high quality video are perhaps the leading factor in their huge success.
- Normal_gaussian 6y agoThis is something I've seen several say, but I totally don't get. I've been using jitsi, gmeet, slack and zoom for the last six months; and that is my order of preference with zoom dead last. Quality on zoom is definitely the worst.