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We do screensharing + voice call after chatting all the time. With google chat it sends you to the beginning of a google meet flow. Now you have a silly dance t

We do screensharing + voice call after chatting all the time. With google chat it sends you to the beginning of a google meet flow. Now you have a silly dance to get a meeting going with the person you are working with. In slack you click the phone icon, and voice is live, then screen share and voila. Same app etc.

YetAnotherNick 6y ago
There is a different problem though slack call has many more issues than Google meet. It's anecdotal but it's not infrequent between all the colleagues that we stopped using it altogether.
- donor20 6y ago
  What are you using instead? I keep on getting yelled at the zoom is insecure etc. But actually no one actually wants the waiting rooms and no one is willing to name the alternative that they use that is better. I interact with a hundreds of folks often with only 1 or 2 chances to speak, and zoom gets everyone in / on much more reliabily in my experience. Same with slack. We are using slack between companies now, and trying to figure out google's chat app strategy with video / screen sharing integration is a NIGHTMARE (even though we pay for gsuite so would prefer it). You have meet, hangouts, chat etc. Some things are in gmail, some things are not. The integration between everything is broken (we also use google voice). We've had issues where I guess folks have domain admins that block them joining a meet call? WHAT! So no your invitee can't get in etc.
  - YetAnotherNick 6y ago
    I think if we just rank on reliability and smoothness of video call, I would rank zoom > google meet > slack.
    - donor20 6y ago
      We do chat, plus a quick audio + screenshare to look at stuff together -> slack has this workflow down. For video calls + possible screen sharing zoom is smooth. Meet is fine, but the flow from chat to a screen share is horrendous because the chat product is NOT meet (I don't think- google's product organization here is confusing).

YetAnotherNick 6y ago

There is a different problem though slack call has many more issues than Google meet. It's anecdotal but it's not infrequent between all the colleagues that we stopped using it altogether.

donor20 6y ago
What are you using instead? I keep on getting yelled at the zoom is insecure etc. But actually no one actually wants the waiting rooms and no one is willing to name the alternative that they use that is better. I interact with a hundreds of folks often with only 1 or 2 chances to speak, and zoom gets everyone in / on much more reliabily in my experience. Same with slack. We are using slack between companies now, and trying to figure out google's chat app strategy with video / screen sharing integration is a NIGHTMARE (even though we pay for gsuite so would prefer it). You have meet, hangouts, chat etc. Some things are in gmail, some things are not. The integration between everything is broken (we also use google voice). We've had issues where I guess folks have domain admins that block them joining a meet call? WHAT! So no your invitee can't get in etc.
- YetAnotherNick 6y ago
  I think if we just rank on reliability and smoothness of video call, I would rank zoom > google meet > slack.
  - donor20 6y ago
    We do chat, plus a quick audio + screenshare to look at stuff together -> slack has this workflow down. For video calls + possible screen sharing zoom is smooth. Meet is fine, but the flow from chat to a screen share is horrendous because the chat product is NOT meet (I don't think- google's product organization here is confusing).