[azangru]

I find the metaphor of a "call" in Skype or Google Meet easier to use for chats with relatives than the metaphor of a "meeting". The latter one works great in a business setting, when you "schedule a meeting" and post its details to Slack, or email them, or stick them in a calendar; but when you want an immediate one-on-one chat, it's so much easier to "call" a person.

Zoom weirds me out in that in order to chat with someone you need to "create a meeting", then copy the meeting url/id, and send it via a different channel to the person you want to chat with.

[shwoopdiwoop]

On the surface, it doesn’t sound like a big difference. In reality, I find using the native /call command in slack a game changer. It opens up a call immediately, no links, copy/pasting, changing applications etc. It just feels right.

[chirag64]

That's not entirely true. Zoom does have tabs called 'Chat' and 'Contacts' where you can find all your contacts & initiate a 'Call' with them without ever having to share a URL / ID

[zaroth]

Discoverability is everything!

[toxik]

Zoom could easily subsume this though, just add a contact list and a call UI. I guess that actually isn’t entirely trivial but certainly doable.

[mkl]

That's already in Zoom.

That's all you do: click Contacts, click the person, click Meet, and they answer the call. It also shows you if they're available, on another call, etc.

[mkl]

None of that is necessary with Zoom. You have two easier options:

Call them:

1. Click Contacts.

2. Click the person.

3. Click Meet.

Or use your personal meeting room:

1. Click New Meeting.

2. Click Participants.

3. Click the person.

4. Click Invite.