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I guess that makes sense. There was some ridiculous extrapolation on the “new normal” like COVID would last forever

giantrobot 3y ago
Zoom got a huge boost of non-commercial use. Everything from book clubs to AA meetings started Zoom sessions during COVID. These are very localized sort of meetups without too much out-of-area participation. Once restrictions on in-person meet ups were eased or obviated Zoom wasn't really offering anything special so usage dropped off. Google Meet and Microsoft Teams also beefed up their offerings. My current gig is an Office 365 shop (or whatever the brand is) so it's all Microsoft cloud stuff. Meetings including broadcast type things like all-hands are all done via Teams which integrates directly into Outlook and ActiveDirectory. I know Google has equivalent integration with their offerings. So Zoom in my experience doesn't quite offer anything all that unique to a lot of COVID era adopters. It completely makes sense their usage would drop back to their pre-COVID numbers. Remote work isn't dependent on Zoom nor does it offer the same integration as other platforms.
Lev1a 3y ago
> like COVID would last forever COVID will be forever with us from now on just like the flu has been since forever and I haven't heard of a currently realistic/feasible way to snuff it out. It will be just one of those infectious diseases everyone gets the yearly shots for. That the lockdown situation wouldn't last forever however was clear to anyone who hadn't gotten high off the farts of <insert any conspiracy theorist nut's name here>. In the end society mirrored the body's immune system with their reaction to new viral threats: - active defense mode: fever (lockdown) and try to sweat most of it out (first vaccines for broad herd immunity), followed by - continual defense mode: producing and tuning antibodies to ever new mutations to the original viral aggressor (releasing lockdowns step-by-step, yearly boosters, learning to live with the chance of catching another of the myriad of diseases out there).

Zoom got a huge boost of non-commercial use. Everything from book clubs to AA meetings started Zoom sessions during COVID. These are very localized sort of meetups without too much out-of-area participation. Once restrictions on in-person meet ups were eased or obviated Zoom wasn't really offering anything special so usage dropped off. Google Meet and Microsoft Teams also beefed up their offerings. My current gig is an Office 365 shop (or whatever the brand is) so it's all Microsoft cloud stuff. Meetings including broadcast type things like all-hands are all done via Teams which integrates directly into Outlook and ActiveDirectory. I know Google has equivalent integration with their offerings. So Zoom in my experience doesn't quite offer anything all that unique to a lot of COVID era adopters. It completely makes sense their usage would drop back to their pre-COVID numbers. Remote work isn't dependent on Zoom nor does it offer the same integration as other platforms.

Lev1a 3y ago

> like COVID would last forever COVID will be forever with us from now on just like the flu has been since forever and I haven't heard of a currently realistic/feasible way to snuff it out. It will be just one of those infectious diseases everyone gets the yearly shots for. That the lockdown situation wouldn't last forever however was clear to anyone who hadn't gotten high off the farts of <insert any conspiracy theorist nut's name here>. In the end society mirrored the body's immune system with their reaction to new viral threats: - active defense mode: fever (lockdown) and try to sweat most of it out (first vaccines for broad herd immunity), followed by - continual defense mode: producing and tuning antibodies to ever new mutations to the original viral aggressor (releasing lockdowns step-by-step, yearly boosters, learning to live with the chance of catching another of the myriad of diseases out there).