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what is the worst teleconf platform
bluejeans
skype 4 biz / lync
webex
zoom
gotomeeting
join.me
some other bullshit
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carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

my some other bullshit is sametime meetings, op

we're switching to webex tho

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Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
sametime is good at chat but the meetings are bad.

DaTroof
Nov 16, 2000

CC LIMERICK CONTEST GRAND CHAMPION
There once was a poster named Troof
Who was getting quite long in the toof
last couple months i've been working with a company that does all their conference calls in slack

no major complaints so far except there's usually one guy with a garbage connection who breaks up constantly

e: i forgot i've been taking every call on my desktop because the app keeps crashing on my phone and laptop. so yeah, there's that

DaTroof fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Feb 27, 2018

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

graph posted:

it still does this

lol

distortion park
Apr 25, 2011


r u ready to WALK posted:

I don’t think I could design a worse text chat solution than Skype for business if I tried deliberately

have you tried jabber. They just introduced revolutionary features like "images in group chats" but it now takes like 5 seconds to open an existing conversation

distortion park fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Feb 27, 2018

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Kazinsal posted:

the worst voip is all of them, but most importantly lync, the platform that uses SIP for instant messaging

sounds like you are ready for Microsoft Teams (R)

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

MononcQc posted:

Skype for Business is the garbagest tool I have ever had to use as a remote employee ever.

22:32 This message wasn't sent to threadid 3850405.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD
our webex makes you enter your email address every time (it doesn't remember or save it to a cookie) before it shunts you to ADFS auth anyway

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD
our jabber doesn't support telephony, screen share, or even sending an image in an IM conversation from BYOD

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Whoops I had this thread scheduled for an hour later, can you catch me up real quick

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

pisssss

flushhhhhhh

distortion park
Apr 25, 2011


~Coxy posted:

our jabber doesn't support telephony, screen share, or even sending an image in an IM conversation from BYOD

Can it sync your chats between byod and computers? Ours didn't when I first tried it and I haven't tried since

Stick Insect
Oct 24, 2010

My enemies are many.

My equals are none.

pointsofdata posted:

A company we work with has a news channel audio as their hold/connecting audio and it's really confusing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4dkBF5anU

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013


ack

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"
our skype has a 30 second lag on all video and slides leading to some huge clusterfuck presentations

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

pointsofdata posted:

Can it sync your chats between byod and computers? Ours didn't when I first tried it and I haven't tried since

it does not

also, from BYOD, you have to sign in as a weird username you would never think to try

so if your AD account is CORP\smithj
and your email is james.smith@foo.com

then you have to sign in as smithj@foo.com

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

I hate WebEx but they have just launched a HTML 5 conference client so it's infinitely less poo poo now. I love join.me but the pricing is :lol:

Other contenders for crap systems include some proprietary crap from Nasdaq with a weird tiny fixed size flash page, BT MeetMe is hit or miss, mainly because the default conference options are a bit awful, like replaying someones name upon arrival.

It's either NYSE or goto meeting has a lame rear end thing that you cannot start a call after the start time, so :lol: if the host is late.

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Mar 1, 2018

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



sorry i missed the invite can someone tell me the discussion so far? uh huh. so is there a screen share too? can you add me? wait no it didnt share add me again thanks

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



*beep beep*



*beep*

i got disconnected can you add me again?

Caganer posted:

i'm the galaxy brain who literally dialed in with his phone while the other scrubs at the w3c curse at their webex client

literally me, but replace webex with 20 year old cisco phones and wired headsets while i multilimb diety brain my bt headset and walk to get coffee

luckily nobody wants, nor can, do video calls at their desks. not that people used them when we could. mine effectively viewed my monitor back because i never moved the new phone when they swapped them

flakeloaf posted:

pisssss

flushhhhhhh

been a while since we got one of those but i was on for a 'nah im not listening to this pointless call what do you need?' mumble and mute a few weeks and and he wasnt wrong :shepface:

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug
had a call with the rest of the partners and the guy showing us numbers kept moving his head away from the mic to look at a screen lol

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug
like dude get a headset with a mic, I know what you make and you can afford it

Jimmy Carter
Nov 3, 2005

THIS MOTHERDUCKER
FLIES IN STYLE
I've got a couple of friends who have started using Discord for calls at work since it's free, call quality is good, it's real easy to share your screen, and you can just send someone a guest invite link that opens in their browser and there's no plugin needed

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Jimmy Carter posted:

I've got a couple of friends who have started using Discord for calls at work since it's free, call quality is good, it's real easy to share your screen, and you can just send someone a guest invite link that opens in their browser and there's no plugin needed

also much easier to invite them to your anime porn server / bitcoin talk channel so its win win really

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Mad Wack posted:

also much easier to invite them to your anime porn server / bitcoin talk channel so its win win really

"accidentally"

poemdexter
Feb 18, 2005

Hooray Indie Games!

College Slice
skype for biz window likes giant borders around everything so good luck actually viewing a screenshare in a 300x400 window surrounded by dark blue and tiny boxes representing everyone on the call.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

Mad Wack posted:

also much easier to invite them to your anime porn server / bitcoin talk channel so its win win really

im the guy who forgot to mute his extra-curricular channels and now has to hunt through them all mid-presentation to find the one playing "pizza pasta"

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

poemdexter posted:

skype for biz window likes giant borders around everything so good luck actually viewing a screenshare in a 300x400 window surrounded by dark blue and tiny boxes representing everyone on the call.
they stole that feature from webex I guess

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"
today a colleague couldn't figure out how to share a video in a meeting so she exported it frame by frame and put every 20th frame into a powerpoint slide, then presented the slide deck and clicked really fast...


it was... inspired...

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

username / post

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



figured out where they hid the meeting control panel and now i can literally drop people form the call with no warning or audio confirmation, making 'accidental' disconnects possible for annoying participants :getin:

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
all meeting services need an option to prevent dial in

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Mad Wack posted:

today a colleague couldn't figure out how to share a video in a meeting so she exported it frame by frame and put every 20th frame into a powerpoint slide, then presented the slide deck and clicked really fast...


it was... inspired...

holy fuckin poo poo

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Mad Wack posted:

today a colleague couldn't figure out how to share a video in a meeting so she exported it frame by frame and put every 20th frame into a powerpoint slide, then presented the slide deck and clicked really fast...


it was... inspired...

goddamn. points for effort.

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

Mad Wack posted:

today a colleague couldn't figure out how to share a video in a meeting so she exported it frame by frame and put every 20th frame into a powerpoint slide, then presented the slide deck and clicked really fast...


it was... inspired...

how long did that take her to do

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

uncurable mlady posted:

how long did that take her to do

hard to say she is a phd intern so she has infinite time on her side to prep for meetings

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

In the last few weeks I have missed multiple conference call invites because of Skype for Business.
Every time I plug in a monitor into my laptop, Skype for Business decides that I am now doing a powerpoint presentation (why else ever need a thing plugged in your laptop or dock?), will silently mark me as busy (presenting) and hide all incoming conversations and calls only to send a notification by email like half an hour later going "you missed this one conversation!"

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

lomarf

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"
im using bluejeans right now

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Mad Wack posted:

im using bluejeans right now
:rip:

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Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
im in a Zoom meeting _right now_

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