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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by eight_ender on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:36AM (#16351499)
Our entire company ran on GTalk for a while, then Slack landed like the Spanish Flu and the IRC++ like features pushed every other medium out, except for some, email. Hangouts was used in meeting rooms for a while but it was so horrendously unreliable that we switched to GotoMeetings then Zoom.

Zoom is less shit than the others but still fairly awful. Slack, imo, solved instant messaging in businesses completely, but conferencing is still a wild west of garbage solutions.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by tarjei on Sunday February 11, 2018 @02:45AM (#16351680)
Try https://appear.in it has worked wonders for us wrt to conferencing.
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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by kwindla on Sunday February 11, 2018 @11:26PM (#16356534)
Shameless plug, our startup makes a video-calling-in-Chrome application. Our goals are being super-reliable, simple, and free: https://daily.co
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