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by jdright 2053 days ago
What does not work with jitsi? I've been using a lot recently and it is by far the easiest one to use. One link and done. I have lots of video and audio issues with zoom. Now, if you're a company, bluejeans may be the best one.
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If you're going to have 10+ People in the meeting, there will be issues. Video/Audio getting bad, People loose have signal, etc. There is also a very noticable load on even more powerful PCs once you have some more people in the call.

So jitsi might work for one-on-ones but slightly bigger conference calls are a no-go.

I tried this and can confirm! I always had about 6-8 persons and never got this issue before. Well, this actually explains a lot of comments I see about Jitsi.
For 10-100 people, use BigBlueButton instead.
There was a period a few months ago where jitsi was consistently crashing chromebooks. Obviously, if a webpage can crash the OS, it's an OS problem, but it still made jitsi unusable for those with chromebooks.
Well, obviously you're not going to have good performance from a web app. Why didn't they install the native app ?
The native app doesn't work with the free 8x8 rooms, as far as I could tell.

I'm not sure I consider not crashing the OS when the conference starts 'good performance' so much as 'working'. Running it in Firefox at the time was bad performance (sluggish), haven't tested since.

I think both video and audio were skippy to the point of uselessness. I've also used Jitsi with moderate success with a couple of interlocutors, where video disappeared now and then.

I'm not a company, I'm at a university, and the u. has decided to use Zoom, perhaps because it doesn't care about security, or because it thinks being concerned about Zoom is being paranoid.