[0] People who joined Teams as guests could set their display names, but Microsoft accounts couldn't. [1] Maybe private messages are possible in Teams meetings, we genuinely don't know; There is no obvious way to do it, esp. with guests. It's certainly possible at work, we use it all the time there, but with random users from different organizations? Dunno. When it works it's separated from the room; In Jitsi Meet private messaging happens in the room chat, so you have everything in one context. [2] Teams and Meet both support breakout rooms, but we never had to try it in Meet because private chat was smoother for this particular session. If the party gets split up in the next session we'll see how well breakout rooms work. We found them a bit awkward in Teams, but they worked well enough once we got the hang of it.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Apr-2020 11:24:17 EDT
lnxw48a1We had our first family #videochat last evening on #Jitsi_Meet. There were some occasional quality issues ... possibly because three of us were connecting from different rooms here. Added to whatever game #lazyNephew was playing, it may have saturated the connection. My oldest brother was unable to connect, but no one has followed up to try to figure out why. His granddaughter is his usual tech support, but she cannot go over right now. . Going to try this with my kids and grandkids, if we can ever schedule it, but we may continue our use of #Wire. I think the video and audio quality is better ... but we've only used 1:1 so far.
@rek2 you left out #Jami, which has a much more consistent #UX across platforms than #Tox (eg none of the Tox mobile apps I've tried support group chat). You also left out #BigBlueButton, which I keep hearing is much less of a resource hog on the server-side than #JitsiMeet, and I can confirm JM is a massive resource hog on the client-side. I haven't used #Discord but I've heard #Riot (#Matrix client) is a pretty good substitute?
@Blort the only thing that worries me about NextCloud Talk is it uses #WebRTC and works in-browser, so it might suffer from the same issues as #JitsiMeet, #PalavaTV etc. On the WebRTC stacks I've tried, you need a fairly late model computer and a pretty fast internet connection to get them to do anything beyond text chat.
@ericbuijs#JitsiMeet is a totally different thing to what I'm describing. As it happens, you are the first person I've ever spoken to who is satisfied with it's UX. It seems to require massive amounts of processing power/ RAM on the users' systems to perform well enough to be anywhere near usable.