Based on the comments, you can tell that trying to pit yourself against zoom is not going to work. Zoom users are loyal for a reason. You need to be clear if you solve a different problem.
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#72I just tried this.. and it worked amazingly well. It was smooth and seemless
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jitsi is already peer-to-peer as far as I know.
On that point, is it actually? I've been messing around with p2p lately and everything is behind a Nat these days, it's almost impossible to do without a relay server which will probably be a dedicated relay server since most clients are going to be behind some sort of router. And before anyone says hole punching, thats pretty much useless these days since almost all NATs are symmetric Nats now, the outgoing and inco…
NAT seems like it has been a disaster for the internet. It basically forces us to route things through dedicated centralized servers, actively damping investment and research into P2P technology. Some of the most useful networking things I’ve learned in the last few years have basically been ways to circumvent NAT-induced problems.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
On that point, is it actually? I've been messing around with p2p lately and everything is behind a Nat these days, it's almost impossible to do without a relay server which will probably be a dedicated relay server since most clients are going to be behind some sort of router. And before anyone says hole punching, thats pretty much useless these days since almost all NATs are symmetric Nats now, the outgoing and inco…
NAT seems like it has been a disaster for the internet. It basically forces us to route things through dedicated centralized servers, actively damping investment and research into P2P technology. Some of the most useful networking things I’ve learned in the last few years have basically been ways to circumvent NAT-induced problems.
Yea that was pretty much how I viewed it as well. There seemed to be a lot of research on p2p research but nat made everything impractical. That being said nat was an necessity due to ip4, but given how widespread it is now I somehow doubt ip6 is really going to make p2p easier
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#75When using linux, everything is "more seamless" than Zoom. This company hates linux users, everything is broken and requires root user to even start.
It’s been working great for me for the last year and a half or so on my stock Dell XPS 15 with Ubuntu.
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#76> Sign on with Google Game over. Zoom requires no account to join a meeting and I just learned a couple of days ago it even works in the browser (toggle in the account settings of the one starting the meeting) I even plugged a Logitech c920 webcam in my Xbox One and did a meeting this way using Edge. Sadly the audio API seems unsupported in that Edge so I had to join the audio through another means. > VS Zoom > Don't…
> it even works in the browser Only in Chrome, unfortunately, and it's severely limited at that. The most limiting factor is that you can only see one other participant at a time. Additionally, Zoom's past attempt to prevent you from uninstalling part of their software is extra reason to only use the Chrome version, if any: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20407233
Ah, tested it and it behaves the same WRT audio in all browsers but Chrome (so works, except audio). So that's not Edge on Xbox One as the culprit but Zoom implementing a Chrome-only audio API.
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#77> Sign on with Google Game over. Zoom requires no account to join a meeting and I just learned a couple of days ago it even works in the browser (toggle in the account settings of the one starting the meeting) I even plugged a Logitech c920 webcam in my Xbox One and did a meeting this way using Edge. Sadly the audio API seems unsupported in that Edge so I had to join the audio through another means. > VS Zoom > Don't…
Zoom in the browser is limited to 360p unfortunately :/
Didn't look like so in my testing, it looked like at least 720p.
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#78> Sign on with Google Game over. Zoom requires no account to join a meeting and I just learned a couple of days ago it even works in the browser (toggle in the account settings of the one starting the meeting) I even plugged a Logitech c920 webcam in my Xbox One and did a meeting this way using Edge. Sadly the audio API seems unsupported in that Edge so I had to join the audio through another means. > VS Zoom > Don't…
Thank you so much for your feedback :)
You’re welcome. You could mandate the "meeting creator" to have an account, then have a (constant or ephemeral) ID/password that people can use to join without an account. Also, Zoom IDs being digits has the advantage that they’re super easy to communicate to attendees and don’t expose your account/email/whatever.
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#79There is Jitsi ( https://jitsi.org and https://meet.jit.si ) which does not need any login - this is really seamless.
Jitsi shows a warning when using Firefox and recommends using Chrome or Chromium. Why? No, thanks.
This is due to Firefox bugs like this: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/2835
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#80I've added a multiple authentication :)