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I looked into adding Zoom to our Slack workspace this morning, and was beside myself with the set of permissions they requested — reading the contents of every channel and private chat they're included in? For a slash command? That's a hard no. Turned me off the service entirely.
It's only available in the paid version, but slack's video conferencing works pretty well.
I've found Hangouts to be equal in call quality to Zoom, and it runs entirely in the web browser. The only down side is it consumes a LOT of power, so you need to stay plugged in while you use it.
I looked into adding Zoom to our Slack workspace this morning, and was beside myself with the set of permissions they requested — reading the contents of every channel and private chat they're included in? For a slash command? That's a hard no. Turned me off the service entirely.
It's only available in the paid version, but slack's video conferencing works pretty well.
Of course there's been other services working just as well or better for at least 10 years now. Interesting things converged suddenly on Zoom. I guess full cross-platform support was the key? Also interesting is the deluge of anti-zoom articles that are blanketing the cybersphere :-) just as they are getting traction. Jealous rivals? Disgruntled lovers?
The fact that they show end users (no pun intended) an "end-to-end encrypted" badge on the meeting window itself, and elsewhere explain how a Zoom server (not Zoom client) is what constitutes an "end" despite the whole rest of the electronic communication industry using "end-to-end" to refer exclusively to user agents, is bonkers.
I've found Hangouts to be equal in call quality to Zoom, and it runs entirely in the web browser. The only down side is it consumes a LOT of power, so you need to stay plugged in while you use it.
Also can't have too many attendees