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Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by bruun »

rhp wrote: post #60

Bug: I clicked the little down arrow to minimize the chat window and it beachballed Chrome (latest version, OS X). Pretty awesome overall, though!

I agree, that seems like an overreaction to closing a text chat. Will put that bug on my hit list, thanks for reporting it!

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by ingridod »

rlongstaff wrote: post #23

Looks good, and seems simple to get going. Two comments: - I set the background image but it didn't appear (the dialog box for that seems to have no 'OK' or 'Save' button) - It would be good to have a microphone level indicator, so I can see whether my microphone has been properly detected and working. There is one in Google Hangout but is rather small and not very good IMHO.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm product manager for appear.in. We'll note down microphone level indicator and consider it for our road map.

As for the background image issue, can you e-mail us at feedback@appear.in for follow up?

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by advertising »

This is great. Simple and seamless. Got online with a couple of guys at the office right away to test it and worked pretty flawlessly. Couple lags here and there but no biggie (likely network on our side).

Didn't get to test desktop share but if it works as well as the video chat did we will definitely be using this for client presentations.

We would previously use Skype and/or join.me for client calls, but like gchat a login or installs were necessary (even if only for the host). This is a much simpler and elegant alternative. Particularly with the background option.

Love it so far!

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by rdtsc »

scottydelta wrote: post #9

How is this app different from the WebRTC demo available at https://apprtc.appspot.com since a long time?

None of them are. There are a gazillion of these on the web. They are just webrtc demo + other things like "oh look you can also chat" or "oh your room has a nice name". And so on.

Now not to say that it is bad thing. It is great. It is what Google wanted (well they want people to use the web more and use Microsoft and iOS only products less).

So you as a developer know that underneath the wiring is really simple and basic but hey if users like it and it works out for them. One of these products might win.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by rdtsc »

cindywu123 wrote: post #19
r0h1n wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh. I did join, saw two faces, and about 4 "we're really sorry..." error messages on the other windows. And then then someone kicked me out :-|

try again

Hmm well is that because you are a developer and just fixed it or because that should be what one would expect users to do. If it is the later then it is a failure because as soon as something doesn't work, and if it requires people to "keep trying again" until is randomly does, you'll lose the majority of customers to competitors.
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