As the guy who has owned chime.tv for well over a decade, this is a bit concerning IP-wise.
What IP, besides the domain name? Yours redirects to some game. I don't think you have a brand to protect.
Amazon Chime
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Re: Amazon Chime
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what are the strong solutions? Every high end conference room AV system I've ever seen was total garbage from a UX perspective.
But it's important to remember that UX is only about a quarter of the total experience.
If the UX is so bad that people can't make it work and have to resort to putting someone's laptop at one end of the conference table instead of using the conference room AV, then it doesn't matter how good the other three quarters of your system is.
Re: Amazon Chime
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you are on OSX, that is a feature of OSX, not Slack. You can turn it off in Keyboard settings IIRC.
My pet peeve about Slack as of late is -- is turned into a single, long-dash. Even when you're inside ` or ```. Which leaves me juggling there on my keyboard, trying to delete one, move my cursor and add a second dash before submitting.
On OS X just disable the dumb quotes and dashes:
System Preferences / Keyboard / Text / Use smart quotes and dashes = off
Re: Amazon Chime
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right in that 99% of them are complete garbage. However I was pleasantly surprised when my company switched to Zoom[1]. A company I had never heard of before. In terms of call quality I've never experienced anything better. Beyond that their mobile experience is almost better in terms of raw features than their desktop app (which is still very good in its own right). 1.) https://www.crunchbase.com/organization…
I refuse to use anything that requires proprietary plugin/app. AFAIK so far the only thing that works natively in the broswer is Hangouts.
Hangouts requires a proprietary plugin in Firefox on Linux. I'll use it for work, on my work computer, but I'll never use it on my personal computers for that reason.
Re: Amazon Chime
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what are the strong solutions? Every high end conference room AV system I've ever seen was total garbage from a UX perspective.
But it's important to remember that UX is only about a quarter of the total experience.
Many value UX higher than that, but even for those who don't, 25% is still a whole heck of a lot.
Re: Amazon Chime
#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most place I've worked, we'd waste anywhere from 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every meeting just trying to get A/V systems and voice conferencing to work. "Anyone there? Hello? Crap, someone needs to dial in as the host. OK Is everyone dialed in? Good. Oh, wait, Roger can't hear us. Roger, dial back in. OK. Hey, whoever is at the cocktail party, can you go on mute?? Thank you. All right. Who's projecting? The pro…
What you need there then (if you are a Windows shop - unlikely), is Lync or Skype for Business. Despite it being Microsoft, I've found it to be the most reliable and seamless system for multi-party Audio, Video, and Screen-sharing based meetings - and I've used at some time or another in my career almost all the other big hitters in the corporate virtual-conferencing space. Combine Lync/SfB with one of those nice mul…
Skype for Business (i.e. rebranded Lync) is complete garbage.
Re: Amazon Chime
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right in that 99% of them are complete garbage. However I was pleasantly surprised when my company switched to Zoom[1]. A company I had never heard of before. In terms of call quality I've never experienced anything better. Beyond that their mobile experience is almost better in terms of raw features than their desktop app (which is still very good in its own right). 1.) https://www.crunchbase.com/organization…
Saw your comment too late and already made my own ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13641706 ). I'm wondering what your CPU usage looks like in Zoom sessions when just participating vs. when you're sharing your screen.
Depends on what programs I have open. The ultimate combo to make my Macbook cry is running a Zoom meeting with video enabled and asana.com open.
Re: Amazon Chime
#308Enterprise conferencing software is so bad and so expensive I'm astonished it took this long for a decent competitor to come in. I'm really surprised Google didn't go all in with making Hangouts a decent competitor. I have a feeling this will make a lot of money.
Most place I've worked, we'd waste anywhere from 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every meeting just trying to get A/V systems and voice conferencing to work. "Anyone there? Hello? Crap, someone needs to dial in as the host. OK Is everyone dialed in? Good. Oh, wait, Roger can't hear us. Roger, dial back in. OK. Hey, whoever is at the cocktail party, can you go on mute?? Thank you. All right. Who's projecting? The pro…
why isn't Google Hangouts good enough?
I've done a lot of deals, real high value business, and meeting coordination in them, in a variety of situations and companies.
Re: Amazon Chime
#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you are on OSX, that is a feature of OSX, not Slack. You can turn it off in Keyboard settings IIRC.
Thank you! I really appreciate the clarity as I haven't seen this "Edit -> Substitutions" menu before. I have shared this learning with my friends. If I were a developer of Slack, I would be very tempted to disable that OS functionality (similar to how Sublime Text does not seem to utilize this OS feature).
Also, this is in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences (where you probably want to make some system-wide changes to defaults so you don’t have to fiddle with the Edit menu in every application).
Re: Amazon Chime
#310Not sure what the long term play for Amazon is with a WebEx competitor, something likely to do with getting enterprise business, hope it works out.
In case you hadn't seen it, this is basically the anti-marketing video for how conference calls actually work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ