A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by goatinaboat on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:28AM (#23299182)

Honest question, but why would I want to see more than 9 people in a video conference?

Because it more closely mimics the experience of being in a room. For example maybe I want to listen to, or be, the person speaking while gauging reactions from facial expressions. I have a 30" 4k monitor, I can easily have 20-30 faces on screen at once in software that supports it.

If you read the MS forums there are plenty of complaints about this, a typical use case is a teacher or lecturer who wants to see their entire class.

I am totally OK with the number of faces on screen at once being a user-configurable parameter in the client - but 9 is a hard limit baked into Teams.

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by saalweachter on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:04AM (#23299909)

Huh, can you assign seating on Zoom?

Say, "this is how I want the grid to be arranged", and maintain that arrangement over many meetings, with absent people blank and not repacked?

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:26AM (#23300273)

That is my single biggest complaint about Zoom.

Also, if you are a host/co-host, the order of the "Participants" list keeps shifting. I end up accidentally muting/unmuting people, because their position changed between my moving the cursor over their name, and clicking.

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by t-writescode on Monday May 25, 2020 @01:35PM (#23303040)

You could make a feature request!

For a service that's probably being marketed a lot at schools, that sounds like a perfect feature for the classroom and you could use it, as well :)

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