Re:Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
by lou1306 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:53PM
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> I disagree with webinars being a necessary product for a Zoom competitor
Sorry for the bluntness, but this is like saying "pivot tables are not a necessary product for an Excel competitor". If you don't provide webinars features (panelists, Q&A, viewers on mute by default...) then you are not really a Zoom competitor, just the n+1th video chat service. I know these may look like trivial features, but having them out-of-the-box is what made Zoom a game changer.
And I say that as someone that utterly despises Zoom, as recently most of my friends ended up being inexplicably locked out of the webinar where I was defending my PhD.
Re:Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
by theshrike79 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:48PM
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If the C-team need to give a virtual presentation for 1000+ employees, people forgetting to unmute their mics or allowing them to unmute without permission is a complete and total dealbreaker for a product.
I know that these aren't complex features code-wise, other solutions just have decided not to implement them.
Forcing mute (and ideally video off) on participants is a pretty easy feature to code for someone like Google and their google meet does seem to support 50+ users. It doesn't have green screen, but it does have background blur, which I would expect to be the same.