[duxup]

Yup, they took their corporate video conferencing products and tried to make a consumer version (Umi I think it was) that while cheaper than the cooperate product were still absurdly expensive.

This was all while Skype pretty well established .... it was pure insanity.

[VectorLock]

And now we have WebEx and they're trying to make a Slack competitor.

[duxup]

Oh man WebEx is crazy clunky software. I used it regularly for years and never got comfortable with it ... let alone that it ran in fits and starts for everyone.

Not using webEx was one of the things I actually looked forward to when I lost my last job. It's crazy that would occur to me.

[nimbix]

Had to use WebEx on a client call once. Had to install two different packages because audio was "provided by Comcast". It was the only time ever that I saw the video, but couldn't get audio, so a coworker had to update me on Slack in real time so I knew what I was watching. Horrible.

[paulie_a]

WebEx is such an abomination of software I will never use it again.

[triangleman]

guess what, if you use the WebEx chat program it saves your entire history in an encrypted sqlite db that you can't access after your company stops using WebEx.

[Corrado]

Are you talking about the Cisco Spark chat program? If so, I can completely believe it. That thing is a piece of garbage.

[triangleman]

I don't think so. It was a previous program that I guess they discontinued. The real story is that WebEx chat client was auto-upgraded to something called "WebEx Jabber" and there was definitely a server storage aspect of chats. But no plan for what to do with locally stored chats. Sucks to lose your chat history, lots of gems in there.

[heywire]

I use WebEx daily and have almost no issues. That said, I work for a very large company and we have our own instance, so maybe we have something custom.