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Re:Show HN: Deploy Jitsi on AWS in 5 Minutes by nthacker on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:02PM (#23011969)
is there a Jitsi vs Zoom breakdown somewhere? Why are more people not using Jitsi meet which is free?
Re:Show HN: Deploy Jitsi on AWS in 5 Minutes by otachack on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:42PM (#23012466)
My guess is because many employers had contracts with them and if you're using it at work, it's likely your go-to for leisure at least if you don't know any better about other options.

It bothers me that people are willing to jump to use their company license of zoom for personal gatherings. I have no idea if it's possible but what if a license holding company, whose employees are utilizing their zoom account, can record any sessions in use by the account?

Even if it's not possible, I hate mixing my personal life with work, and when I see the opportunity I always bring up Jitsi as an option over Zoom.

Re:Show HN: Deploy Jitsi on AWS in 5 Minutes by notechback on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:54PM (#23012596)
I think the key difference is that Jitsi doesn't have breakout rooms nor a desktop app. Otherwise user experience is rather similar and from my pov the Jitsi meet style with room name is much more friendly than random numbers on zoom.
Re:Show HN: Deploy Jitsi on AWS in 5 Minutes by evolve2k on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:38PM (#23012981)
There’s been interest in adding breakout rooms to Jitsi. A live demo that you can test and deploy for yourself just in GitHub pages includes a breakout rooms starting point.

Trial it here and give the issue a thumbs up if you’d like to see breakout rooms added.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/5550

Re:Show HN: Deploy Jitsi on AWS in 5 Minutes by gpchelkin on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:58PM (#23038399)
Re:Show HN: Deploy Jitsi on AWS in 5 Minutes by shmoogy on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:32PM (#23014289)
I tried jitsi meet earlier, and the screen share quality was completely illegible, is there a setting to make this better? Zoom, Nextiva, bluejeans, slack... they all work perfectly fine...