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Webex is so shockingly bad. Zoom, Teams, Slack, all seem to work fairly well, all have clients (and can run in the browser) Webex - which I have to use as part

Webex is so shockingly bad. Zoom, Teams, Slack, all seem to work fairly well, all have clients (and can run in the browser) Webex - which I have to use as part of a university course I'm doing on the side - requires you to run it in a browser on my OS, it has really awful options (like allowing the presenter to unmute people), half the claimed features just aren't available (virtual whiteboard, no major loss as everyone uses a shared google doc instead), and if you disconnect for some reason (like sound stops working which happens fairly frequently) you are kicked out of a group and you can't get back in.

saiya-jin 5y ago
Must be your specific webex/connection settings/version then, we have it in our massive banking corps (90k+employees worldwide) and none of the things you describe are an issue. We have adopted it some 7 years ago. You don't need to run it in browser at all, there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with it. Now it is still a crappy system, but for different reasons than you describe. And other solutions have their own problems, as indicated by article and elsewhere.
- silurian 5y ago
  > there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with Now you sound as if you are not familiar with it. Looks like Webex added Linux(Deb & RHEL) on May 28, 2021. Before that, you had to use their legacy java applcation which also necessitated you to *manually* figure out, then hunt down & install the missing dependencies. And it was still shit.
- hobofan 5y ago
  The 1000 slightly different versions of Webex that are all bundeled under the same brand are its biggest drawback. My university uses it as well, and the normal latest version of Webex is on par with Zoom. However for some courses the lecutrers use e.g. Webex Training which is barely usable garbage (but is the only version that has built-in quiz features).
  - illiac786 5y ago
    My company uses webex since years and quizz is now built into the Webex Meetings app as they bought slido. I agree though that Webex Training, Webex Support, and some very old webex versions are just terrible.
- iso1210 5y ago
  > You don't need to run it in browser at all, there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with it. I don't care about anyone else's OS. I have desktop zoom, desktop slack, and desktop MS Teams, all work fine. Webex has web only (which means no whiteboard -- which I'm told from people who do have supported desktops -- mac users I think -- isn't good), no joining of private rooms, and the awful spyyware ability of remote people to turn on your microphone without your permission.
illiac786 5y ago
why is running in a browser so bad? Lots of people actually WANT this feature, as they do not want to install native apps.
- iso1210 5y ago
  Because it isn't fully featured - it lacks the majority of features of the native client

saiya-jin 5y ago

Must be your specific webex/connection settings/version then, we have it in our massive banking corps (90k+employees worldwide) and none of the things you describe are an issue. We have adopted it some 7 years ago. You don't need to run it in browser at all, there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with it. Now it is still a crappy system, but for different reasons than you describe. And other solutions have their own problems, as indicated by article and elsewhere.

silurian 5y ago
> there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with Now you sound as if you are not familiar with it. Looks like Webex added Linux(Deb & RHEL) on May 28, 2021. Before that, you had to use their legacy java applcation which also necessitated you to *manually* figure out, then hunt down & install the missing dependencies. And it was still shit.
hobofan 5y ago
The 1000 slightly different versions of Webex that are all bundeled under the same brand are its biggest drawback. My university uses it as well, and the normal latest version of Webex is on par with Zoom. However for some courses the lecutrers use e.g. Webex Training which is barely usable garbage (but is the only version that has built-in quiz features).
- illiac786 5y ago
  My company uses webex since years and quizz is now built into the Webex Meetings app as they bought slido. I agree though that Webex Training, Webex Support, and some very old webex versions are just terrible.
iso1210 5y ago
> You don't need to run it in browser at all, there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with it. I don't care about anyone else's OS. I have desktop zoom, desktop slack, and desktop MS Teams, all work fine. Webex has web only (which means no whiteboard -- which I'm told from people who do have supported desktops -- mac users I think -- isn't good), no joining of private rooms, and the awful spyyware ability of remote people to turn on your microphone without your permission.

illiac786 5y ago

why is running in a browser so bad? Lots of people actually WANT this feature, as they do not want to install native apps.

iso1210 5y ago
Because it isn't fully featured - it lacks the majority of features of the native client