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THANK YOU Honestly surprised I haven't come across this before. Also, link formatting seems to be working for me?
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What alternatives do you recommend? As far as I can tell none of the major video conferencing solutions are made by companies I think are any more trustworthy than Zoom at this point. Plus Google and others ran a focused assassination campaign against Zoom at the start of the pandemic to claw some of their market share.
Google is certainly more secure than Zoom to outside attacks. Regardless of what Google chooses to do with your data, they do want to protect that data from everyone else, on your behalf. At least as much as any company can (government subpoena affects all companies).
One fun thing we discovered an outage or two ago: Zoom, which is likely already on your computer too, has a very Slack-like Chat feature. Open up the Zoom app, then click the Chat icon in the top header. You probably missed it this entire time. You can make rooms, DMs, animated gifs, the works :)
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I know it’s not seen as a professional service, but Discord has great quality video chat (better than Zoom, for example). I don’t know if its privacy/security would hold up for larger companies but we use it in my tiny company with no issues at all.
Any recommendations on getting Discord notifications to reliably show up in a reasonable time on mobile? That's the one big issue I have with Discord. Otherwise I find it very useful.
Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories: * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to: " work. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works wel…
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Google is certainly more secure than Zoom to outside attacks. Regardless of what Google chooses to do with your data, they do want to protect that data from everyone else, on your behalf. At least as much as any company can (government subpoena affects all companies).
I don’t understand why zoom is so much more popular than Google meet. I never used zoom before my current company who uses Google meets for daily meetings and then zoom meeting for the biweekly review. No idea what advantages zoom is supposed to have.
Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories: * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to: " work. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works wel…
I love slack. Slack search is terrible for me, but maybe it's the quality of data it has to search through.
Surprised no one is talking about how awesome slack is. Think about it in user stories: * I want to find someone by name => ctrl+K * I want to search with sane keywords => search, "from:me" "to: " work. * I want to remember someone I talked to recently => people you chat with show up in the list on the left * I want to keep com channels organized as the ground changes => easily rename channels, favorites UI works wel…
* I used to be able to type a message containing "@channel" or "@here" and just hit Enter without looking, and 100% of the time it would be parsed correctly. Now it fails to detect the "@channel" or "@here" often enough that I have to look to see if it failed, then go back and retype that part of the message until it lights up. Once a week or so, I see a message posted by someone else that contains "@channel" in black, and they expected the message to notify everyone but it didn't.
* Recently Slack pushed everyone to switch from usernames to full names with spaces, and eliminated the entire concept of unique usernames. There were many annoying consequences to this, one of which is that when I type "@name", now I have to look to see if it highlighted, or look to interact with the drop-down menu, instead of just typing and knowing it will work.
* Searching also got worse for the same reason. When I type "@name" in the search bar, it NEVER lights up. For 90% of searches this means I can no longer type in a search query and just press Enter. I always have to look through the drop-down menu and either mouse-click or press down-arrow repeatedly to get to the thing I want.