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Missed? They grew Teams, lol. Zoom - wtf, who the hell uses it after. Discord would be better example since it is huge, even LLVM community uses it

Cthulhu_ 2y ago
I suspect quite a few people still use Zoom out of habit / procedure, but you can see on its stock market value that it really was a pandemic success, its stock market dropped and flattened out after 2022.
- ghaff 2y ago
  Now that I'm not at a company that uses Google Workplace, Zoom is far and away the most common video chat I see--but with a few exceptions, I think it's pretty much all just personal accounts.
mrintegrity 2y ago
Discord missed an opportunity to become the video calling and chat king, the smoothness of joining and leaving a group video chat when you please and the high quality video, audio and app support was exactly the kind of "just like being in the office but virtual" experience that teams, skype, slack, zoom, meet, etc lack. During peak covid it was a godsend having calls with friends and playing games together. My dream service would be very like discord but with scheduled meeting support and completely open source and self hostable.
- bloomingkales 2y ago
  Gaming laptops today are the best AI laptops. They will never sell as well to the masses because they have a gaming aesthetic. This is true for Discord as well. Skinning HN like it's Facebook will turn you off, even if it has the content you want believe it or not.
  - mook 2y ago
    Quite a few gaming laptops these days have slightly more subdued aesthetics. Unfortunately they're still huge due to cooling requirements (or rather, because that's a dimension that can be sacrificed without too much trouble) though.
robin_reala 2y ago
A deaf colleague massively preferred Zoom to Teams because the video quality on Zoom allowed a lot more sign language nuance to transfer.
- DrFalkyn 2y ago
  Zoom has live captioning at lest for the paid version
  - alternatex 2y ago
    Both Skype and Teams have captioning. Skype even has voice translation that aims to reproduce the vocal timbre.
dole 2y ago
Zoom is widely used in US city and state government departments because of the ease of use and pricing, basically free.
xioxox 2y ago
It's entirely Zoom for my branch of academia.
wholinator2 2y ago
I have literally never once used teams officially in any degree. Every call i made before i graduated high school was skype, every school and graduate and job call I've ever made has been zoom.
ranger207 2y ago
My company uses Teams and Zoom. Every Teams meeting is a disaster compared to Zoom. At least it's not Amazon Chime. IDK how AWS Support survives that
- richardwhiuk 2y ago
  Amazon are eoling chime

Cthulhu_ 2y ago

I suspect quite a few people still use Zoom out of habit / procedure, but you can see on its stock market value that it really was a pandemic success, its stock market dropped and flattened out after 2022.

ghaff 2y ago
Now that I'm not at a company that uses Google Workplace, Zoom is far and away the most common video chat I see--but with a few exceptions, I think it's pretty much all just personal accounts.

mrintegrity 2y ago

Discord missed an opportunity to become the video calling and chat king, the smoothness of joining and leaving a group video chat when you please and the high quality video, audio and app support was exactly the kind of "just like being in the office but virtual" experience that teams, skype, slack, zoom, meet, etc lack. During peak covid it was a godsend having calls with friends and playing games together. My dream service would be very like discord but with scheduled meeting support and completely open source and self hostable.

bloomingkales 2y ago
Gaming laptops today are the best AI laptops. They will never sell as well to the masses because they have a gaming aesthetic. This is true for Discord as well. Skinning HN like it's Facebook will turn you off, even if it has the content you want believe it or not.
- mook 2y ago
  Quite a few gaming laptops these days have slightly more subdued aesthetics. Unfortunately they're still huge due to cooling requirements (or rather, because that's a dimension that can be sacrificed without too much trouble) though.

robin_reala 2y ago

A deaf colleague massively preferred Zoom to Teams because the video quality on Zoom allowed a lot more sign language nuance to transfer.

DrFalkyn 2y ago
Zoom has live captioning at lest for the paid version
- alternatex 2y ago
  Both Skype and Teams have captioning. Skype even has voice translation that aims to reproduce the vocal timbre.

dole 2y ago

Zoom is widely used in US city and state government departments because of the ease of use and pricing, basically free.

xioxox 2y ago

It's entirely Zoom for my branch of academia.

wholinator2 2y ago

I have literally never once used teams officially in any degree. Every call i made before i graduated high school was skype, every school and graduate and job call I've ever made has been zoom.

ranger207 2y ago

My company uses Teams and Zoom. Every Teams meeting is a disaster compared to Zoom. At least it's not Amazon Chime. IDK how AWS Support survives that

richardwhiuk 2y ago
Amazon are eoling chime