8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
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Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
#2I've been futzing about with VoIP since the late 1990's. First as a developer and test engineer and then as just an interested party. When ZRTP came out I was excited, and then Jitsi was developed and I was interested. But everytime I try Jitsi it has terrible quality issues.
About a month ago I evaluated it again, hoping it would have changed since I last evaluated it 2-3 years ago. But it still had terrible quality issues.[1] I want to use SIP instead of Skype, and I want to tell other people to use SIP, but for that to happen Jitsi needs to stop sucking :(
I can only hope this acquisition means Jitsi gets better to a point where I can recommend it, and use it myself. There's a lot to hate about Skype. It's a closed protocol, it's owned by MS, and it's UI is garbage. But everytime I use it I don't suffer from any A/V quality issues, which is actually the point.
[1] By this I mean scratchy audio and video between two test laptops. Whereas Skype had no such problems.
Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
#3Doesn't seem like big news. IMHO Jitsi was never a particularly good product and seems like Atlassian finally understood it.
Maybe it is useful for some businesses now but I don't see future for it.
Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
#4Never heard of 8x8 before. Anyone who used their services care to comment on them?
Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
#5I've been futzing about with VoIP since the late 1990's. First as a developer and test engineer and then as just an interested party. When ZRTP came out I was excited, and then Jitsi was developed and I was interested. But everytime I try Jitsi it has terrible quality issues. About a month ago I evaluated it again, hoping it would have changed since I last evaluated it 2-3 years ago. But it still had terrible quality…
Have you tried Zoom?[1] Seems much better than Skype for business meetings.
[1] https://zoom.us/
Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
#6I've been futzing about with VoIP since the late 1990's. First as a developer and test engineer and then as just an interested party. When ZRTP came out I was excited, and then Jitsi was developed and I was interested. But everytime I try Jitsi it has terrible quality issues. About a month ago I evaluated it again, hoping it would have changed since I last evaluated it 2-3 years ago. But it still had terrible quality…
Hi there, Jitsi dev here: note that the Jitsi desktop client (the one which supports SIP) is no longer actively developed, it transitioned to being community maintained.
We have been focusing our efforts on Jitsi Meet for past few years: https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
#7Interesting to see this here now :-)
I'm part of the Jitsi team, and made the transition from Atlassian to 8x8. I'm happy to answer questions if any, to the best of my ability / capacity.
Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
#8Never heard of 8x8 before. Anyone who used their services care to comment on them?
Yes, I've used them for the last year and their software is horrid and can barely be used to make phone calls without crashing frequently. Also, their support is quite crap.
That said, they pushed out an update about 3-4 months ago that improved stability a lot.
Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
#9It's interesting how Atlassian is selling many its offerings, first HipChat/Stride to Slack[0] and now Jitsi.
I'm curious why that's happening, was there some sort of leadership change that's trying to focus on "core business"?
[0]: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-s...
Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
#10I've been futzing about with VoIP since the late 1990's. First as a developer and test engineer and then as just an interested party. When ZRTP came out I was excited, and then Jitsi was developed and I was interested. But everytime I try Jitsi it has terrible quality issues. About a month ago I evaluated it again, hoping it would have changed since I last evaluated it 2-3 years ago. But it still had terrible quality…
Have you tried Zoom?[1] Seems much better than Skype for business meetings. [1] https://zoom.us/
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