Yeah, it feels like overnight with this pandemic that "zooming" turned into the verb of choice (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/consulting/comments/fmfdh6/my_old_c... ), even for friends of mine who are non-technical and have never used it before, and this is not surprising. Its scalability during this pandemic has been amazing, getting into a zoom call for new users is as simple as clicking a link, and the "brady bunch view" when you have more than 5 people is better than anything else I've tried.

Our town-hall meeting was 12000 (twelve tousend) people and there was no problem. We used it in some special mode where you only could open your microphone but not the video. I have no idea how many countries we were from but we're a fortune 500 company.

We regularly have milestone meetings at a custommer with 300 people joining with the normal setup where everyone can join the conversation, never had any problems with zoom.

The more amazing part is that they are able to handle this unexpected, enormous increase in traffic. I'm guessing it's a mad house there trying to keep enough capacity. But if not, and it is scaling in the cloud this seemlessly, then their infrastructure is definitely a work of genius.

they made it free for personal use on china a month ago, so lots of preparation time.

let’s see how they exploit it financially after so much free marketing. no evil or not ;)