Re:Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues
by CharlesW on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:19PM
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> There is apparently no way to get sound working in the Mac client, meaning that it might as well not exist.
FWIW, it works fine for a team in our company who regularly posts audio content for review. Many of us use macOS.
Re:Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues
by mrweasel on Saturday October 17, 2020 @12:14PM
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But can you use it for a video conference?
Re:Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues
by CharlesW on Saturday October 17, 2020 @03:36PM
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Yes. We use both Teams and Webex (I haven't used Slack for videoconferencing so I can't compare), and they seem comparable.
There's a 49 on-screen participant limit, with a 250 participant limit overall.
Re:Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues
by underwater on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:20PM
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That's a pretty silly statement. Microsoft has not built a product where sounds flat out "doesn't work" on any Mac.
Re:Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues
by mrweasel on Saturday October 17, 2020 @12:11PM
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No one at my company has managed to have a functional video conference using the Mac client, and I talked to people at two major software development companies in Denmark, they have the same problem. The web client works. It’s not as good or easy as Google Meet, or what ever it’s called, but it works. The Mac client does NOT work and have not worked for at least six month.
Sound simply doesn't work in the app, full stop. You need to use the web version, in Chrome, because nothing else works... Well Edge maybe, who knows. There is apparently no way to get sound working in the Mac client, meaning that it might as well not exist.