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What’s up with the name? I’m never going to get my boss on board with a malware-looking name like that.
+1 this is an awful name if you want to get anyone serious on board. Seems super scammy.
jitsi seems quite tame compared to both of those.
This is really nice, but who is paying for all the infrastructure and bandwidth? Are there more details?
https://www.8x8.com/ Footer of https://jitsi.org/
Get someone over 50 in there to kick them and remind them that "Start a new meeting" with things like "LeopardBottomSniffer" appearing under it means nothing to anyone but developers.
Here's a better design, in text:
- Who are we? This is Jitsi Meet video conferencing - How do I use it? Just type a name for your meeting in the box and get started, you'll be able to share from there.
The old line about "can someone's granny use?" this comes to mind. If I seem annoyed, I am, we need successful competitors to things like Zoom and Google but that means getting non-developers to use them.
I agree that it's an awful name but it's a superb app! Can't believe this is open-sourced.
Onboarding: Jitsi: Click a URL. No accounts. Hangouts: Google account. Need to individually invite other Google accounts.
Video Quality: Jitsi: Decent, slightly better than hangouts. Hangouts: Passable but grainy.
Video Layout: Jitsi: Automatically big-screens current speaker, shows small screens of others. Has option to tile to equally size screens. Hangouts: Same.
Conclusion: Friends preferred Hangouts.
It's quite disheartening that "average users" shun 1 click URL room creation with superior video and audio quality for manually adding contacts. And that's without any considerations for free software vs. Google panopticon. They would rather tolerate a multi-step process of sharing gmail accounts, asking the same person for their email repeatedly.
There doesn't appear to be a share-window/share-screen option which feels like that makes this a non-starter for a lot of work-related applications.
We have a lot of experience working with Jitsi Meet, if anyone has questions integrating Jitsi, free to send me an email john@taskade.com. Happy to help!
There doesn't appear to be a share-window/share-screen option which feels like that makes this a non-starter for a lot of work-related applications.