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Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by lostsock »

eagsalazar2 wrote: post #164
ElijahLynn wrote: post #107

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I proposed Zoom vs Jitsi Meet the other day for a virtual hangout with a group of friends. They initially wanted to try Zoom... because of the virtual backgrounds. Yup, that is what they wanted. I shall suggest Jitsi Meet again soon ;).

It isn't just a gimmick, it is a legit feature when working from home and you don't want everyone to see your messy kitchen or bedroom. Sadly the chrome app version you have to use for ChromeOS doesn't support that feature anyway :(

FWIW Jitsi Meet just added "Blur my background" as a Beta feature. It works decently.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by gnicholas »

jacurtis wrote: post #168
eagsalazar2 wrote: post #164

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It isn't just a gimmick, it is a legit feature when working from home and you don't want everyone to see your messy kitchen or bedroom. Sadly the chrome app version you have to use for ChromeOS doesn't support that feature anyway :(

Confirming that it isn’t a gimmick. I have been working on distributed WFH Teams for the past 5 years now (long before COVID19) and this has been a consistent point of embarrassment and/or trouble with video conferencing. I can’t begin to tell you how many times we have had people that need extra time to prepare for a meeting because of the background. As a manager, I have had lots of personal conversations with empl…

That blur looks great. Too bad I have literally never been able to successfully join a Teams call. Every single time we have to fall back to telephone.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by surround »

skylerwshaw wrote: post #104
lytedev wrote: post #75

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Firefox preview on my phone in desktop mode worked FWIW.

If that's on iOS, you're not actually using Firefox since it uses Apple's Webkit.

Firefox preview is only on android.

iOS doesn’t support videoconferencing in the browser - you have to download the app.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by maxnoe »

I deployed it using the docker compose Config for my university group in our rancher cluster: https://github.com/jitsi-mee/docker-jitsi-meet

We now use it for most meetings, works very well so far, several sessions in parallel with several dozen people at the same time (but mostly only using audio).

Screen sharing works fine as well.

We made the experience that they are unfortunately right about requiring chrome (chromium works fine as well).

Would be great if firefox support could come back.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by brigandish »

Brakenshire wrote: post #51
brigandish wrote: post #24

The home page looks like it was designed by a 20 year old who lives in a world of Javascript package managers. 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…

Granny won’t set up a room, but you can send her a link on email or Whatsapp which can open the chat in a browser or redirect to an app download depending on platform, and also offer dial in options. That seems as intuitive as the process can be. The app also seems extremely straightforward. Granny usability is actually exactly what I’m looking for, and on first glance I’m impressed.

> That seems as intuitive as the process can be.

Have you tried it with a granny? Have you ever trained people in using computers?

I have, young and old, professionally, some of them grannies, and this does not cut the mustard by a long chalk. I can imagine a few ways to make it easier.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by maxnoe »

maxnoe wrote: post #175

I deployed it using the docker compose Config for my university group in our rancher cluster: https://github.com/jitsi-mee/docker-jitsi-meet We now use it for most meetings, works very well so far, several sessions in parallel with several dozen people at the same time (but mostly only using audio). Screen sharing works fine as well. We made the experience that they are unfortunately right about requiring chrome (chr…

Correct link: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by anon102010 »

jpdus wrote: post #43

The main reasons for Zooms popularity (and in general the most important features of a videoconferencing software) are accessibility and reliability. Same as with Slack/IRC - privacy is not the most important features in that space. If I have the choice of a working solution with some minor privacy issues and a solution which will never be adopted b/c half of the people will not be able to join or their experience is…

Exactly this. Zoom is crushing it here. Whatever negatives they are doing privacy side is paying of BIG time in ease of use.

Did a call recently, host wanted to google hangouts. 50% could not get in. Finally someone else said let's just use Zoom. 1 minute later we are all in. I think google doesn't work well with domains with hangouts meet blocked if you invite folks on those so they need to spin up a different account. Or people don't know meets is restricted to domain users only? Or get confused between hangouts / chat / meets etc. Something is wonky sometimes with google in terms of 5 solutions to one problem.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by anon102010 »

swiley wrote: post #93
jpdus wrote: post #43

The main reasons for Zooms popularity (and in general the most important features of a videoconferencing software) are accessibility and reliability. Same as with Slack/IRC - privacy is not the most important features in that space. If I have the choice of a working solution with some minor privacy issues and a solution which will never be adopted b/c half of the people will not be able to join or their experience is…

Zoom’s privacy issues are more than minor, if my friends started using it and I couldn’t get the web version to work I wouldn’t do a conference call with them.

Can I ask if you are using video conferencing in a business setting?

When folks are trying to get stuff done in tough circumstances NO ONE has ANY patience for the home built / funky / privacy enhanced multi-click setup. Especially not the top executives now dialing in from home who aren't tech forward. IT doesn't want to trouble shoot things either - all of a sudden you have 1000+ folks video conferencing.

I'd be interested in these dealbreaker privacy problems in the current client.

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