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by jszymborski 2189 days ago
jitsi works wonderfully.

I've also have been using Discord for voice almost daily for a little over a year and it just works 99% of the time. Unfortunately, it suffers from "gamer" branding that makes it awkward suggesting for work. They should try offering a "business skin" that interops with discord.
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hunter2_ 2189 days ago
It bothers me a bit that such branding/skin influences the situations in which people use good products. I tried to get my friends to switch from Facebook Messenger to Slack, and plenty of them use Slack at work (as do I), and a large amount of pushback was along the lines of "I don't want to feel like I'm working."

It's just a means of communicating, people. Maybe a few Discord features aren't useful outside of gaming and a few Slack features aren't useful outside of the workplace. I find that to be a stupid reason not to generalize the use of these products. Skinning (and filtering away those specific features) just might be the ticket.

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CarbyAu 2189 days ago
I second Jitsi. For me, the value is in hosting your own Jitsi server. Really not that hard to do.

Mind you, I only host it at home on a VM for personal use. Have had sessions with 6 people with one of them a Europe-Australia connection. All fine on default 720p.

If I were looking for 20+ meeting software though I'd consider something else. I would consider it a case for streaming to faceless attendees. I have never had a meeting with useful input from more than 10 people.

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