Do they use WebRTC and do they work in Firefox on Linux?
This has been my greatest frustration with slack (and with google voice calls, though I will angrily use Chromium if I have to, which I guess is Google's goal)
Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
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#142Omg, slack is worst shit i ever seen
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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.
Hangouts Meet fixes this. I believe they try to pick a codex per system that is supported in hardware (rather than using VP9 whenever it could).
(I work for G, opinions are my own)
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with Google Hangouts? (I don't have any perspective, just asking)
It isn't what is wrong with Hangouts so much as it is a list of things we like about Slack: 1) Channels - each message has a home. Notifications can be set to the correct level. 2) APIs/Integrations - We hook it up to github, pivotal, new relic, AWS and some of our own custom hooks. Reminders, alerts, messages - whatever we dream up that needs to be done and it is open enough to do it. 3) History 4) Past an image rig…
Hangouts Chat / Meet [0] brings a lot, if not all, of this when it comes out. Meet keeps most of what hangouts video has today, but a better UI and uses hardware codecs when it chan.
Hangout Chat is really a rework of the idea of hangouts. It brings a lot of functionality that people like from Slack (everything you mention I believe).
Note that Hangouts today does have search sorta (it ain't great). If conversation history is on, it can be searched from Gmail web (not Inbox either), using the "in:chat" filter.
(I work for G, opinions are my own)
[0] https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/03/09/google-takes-slack-...
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Google Hangouts eats batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Google Hangouts uses so much chrome, it is very hard to see on a laptop screen.
You can get rid of most of the ui, but it's not very intuitive.
First click on the little upwards arrow on the person who's sharing in the bottom right corner.
Then the toolbar (the thing that appears in the top center of the screen when moving the mouse) gains an extra icon on the left which collapses everything.
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If anyone from screenhero is reading: I love screenhero and use it all the time but the one feature I need the team to add is the ability to disable another people's control of my screen. I think this feature is useful, but sometimes I'm giving a demo and just dont need it (or want it). I have fucked up multiple demos because someone accidentally clicked off my browser tab while I was controlling the screen.
They aren't working on Screenhero anymore.
That is really sad. I like SH waaaaaay more than I like slack (which to me is a passable but not great chat app.. it eats my RAM and CPU and sometimes the css formatting breaks....) and use it all the time for remote pair programming.
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#148Still no linux support for video and now no linux support for screen sharing. Here's to hoping Google ramps up whatever Slack competitor they're trying to roll hangouts into.
We've been using Zoom for the past 2 years and their Linux support is outstanding. Not the prettiest of UIs, but very reliable.
Can second that. Zoom works on Windows/Linux/Mac.
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#149I keep finding myself wanting to use slack more and more for customer calls. Generally the audio quality has been pretty great compared to Google Hangouts / Uberconference / Gotomeeting. Screensharing makes me want to use it more. The only issue is that you can't just invite any random person to a call, they already have to be within your slack organization. I wonder if they'll end up pulling this out as a separate p…
I rather like appear.in Just give someone a url and you can start chatting with them. No plugins, no logins, all WebRTC. It seems to try to load some flash, but it looks optional.
Like the idea of appear.in but it really pegs CPU
Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
#150As someone else mentioned, they are finally doing some more with their purchase of Screen Hero most likely. However, one major feature that Screen Hero had that I don't _THINK_ this new screen sharing built in Slack has, is the ability for the other person to control the mouse/keyboard on your screen. I could be wrong, but if that is the case it's a huge feature missing. That was one of my favorite things that Screen…
In particular, I like that screenhero gives each participant their own separate mouse pointer.