Can someone explain why slack web app always turns my MacBook video indicator light on when I'm on a call even when I'm not sharing video? I don't like them accessing the camera unless I actual want to share video.
Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
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#72we loved Screenhero too, but now switched to aws chime and find it even better (except for funky UI) because you can have multiple video calls and control presenters screen.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're doing the same thing. I want to use Slack but we're going with Teams for cost reasons (included in o365). I've never had any problems with screen sharing with skype for business.
I wish we were at least moving to teams. I can't stand Skype For Business (Lync) - half of the time copying+pasting in and out of messages fails and or messages are too long. I would even prefer slack over this.
I've been using Lync for so long that I'm just used to all the little stupid things it does. Teams is a definite improvement.
Someone (on hn maybe?) compared Teams to Google Wave and I can't really get that comparison out of my head now.
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#75There goes Lync and Skype Pro down the drain...
I work for a 75-staff company on a pretty tight budget, and we have office 365. For us to use slack with SSO and have more than 10k messages, we'd have to pay about $11k/yr. Teams, we're already paying for with o365 (and even if we weren't on o365 yet, E1 plan is approx $7k/yr and includes teams, exchange... sharepoint (not that I'd use that)). That's what's going to prevent Lync/s4b from going down the drain.
Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
#76we loved Screenhero too, but now switched to aws chime and find it even better (except for funky UI) because you can have multiple video calls and control presenters screen.
Be sure to give them feedback on the UI. I recently gave em feedback and they're fairly receptive.
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#77We're a Microsoft shop so we use Skype for Business, which seems to work well for talk/IM/screen sharing. Now we're getting "Teams" to be slacker. I'd be curious to hear how the Slack video/screen sharing compares to Skype Business, after a rocky start it's working pretty smoothly for us now.
We tried Teams and returned to Slack.
Broken notifications and horrible SharePoint magic behind the scenes. The way Teams is organized confused some of my team. Interestingly, we also had a lot of problems with Skype for Business.
The dark theme and the way Teams formats while you type was great, though!
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What's wrong with Google Hangouts? (I don't have any perspective, just asking)
No keyboard & mouse sharing. And to a lesser extent, not everyone wants a Google account. My employer also blocks some Google services. For example, I can't access Gmail. Trying to use Hangouts without Gmail is swimming upstream a bit.
Have you tried hangouts.google.com? It's possibly still blocked, depending on your employer, but if not, it's just a hangouts webUI that also allows calls.
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What's wrong with Google Hangouts? (I don't have any perspective, just asking)
Hangout's encoding also it's a real performance hog because most devices don't support H.264 in hardware. Every time I'm in a hangout the fans come on and the battery rapidly drops towards zero.
Most devices DO support H.264 encoding. Hangouts however uses VP9 in Chrome and that's not HW accelerated. If you use Safari on Mac it'll switch to H264 and that will stress CPU less.
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#80I'm curious. I've used Screen Hero, Webex, Google Hangouts, and GotoMeeting extensively. People evoke a lot of love for Screen Hero and I can never figure out why. Video quality is pretty awful and pixellated. I don't see a single feature in Screen Hero that isn't in the other ones and the other ones have many more features that I use.
i wonder why people down voted you. you're asking valid questions...
I'm starting to see a recurring pattern on HN. If you say something that somehow goes against "HN ideology", you get downvoted. Anyone else see this too?
oh wait... watch me get downvoted too...