[yomly]

Zoom does just work - I've used hangouts/meet, skype, whereby/appear.in, discord, talky

Of all those Zoom had the best balance of stability/resource use/call joinability

I find meet a PITA to set up and invite random people

WebRTC browser chat is great for rooms >= 6 people and is my preferred choice

But zoom works pretty well from 1:1 up to 500:1 and is very easy to join

Don't get me wrong, I hate the Zoom client but when the target audience is everyone in your company, including your PC illiterate middle managers, then I can see how Zoom is quite good

[Macha]

I have to say, I've found both Google Meet and Discord to be more reliable in the "just works" department (despite neither being perfect). My experience with Zoom was a job interview where the link kept asking me to install a browser plugin, even though I already had, even if I clicked a link that was apparently a web fall back.

I think I had to use a phone dial in in the end

[wenc]

I wonder if you might have been sent a WebEx link? That doesn’t sound like Zoom.

AFAIK Zoom doesn’t use browser plugins but WebEx definitely does.

[Macha]

It's been 2.5 years, so can't verify, but almost certain it was Zoom. Possibly it was the desktop app it was asking me to install.

[yomly]

The problem with Discord is a lot of people can't figure out how to use it. It also requires sign up