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Now the squares that have no video and could have been easily put away elsewhere are now big as ever and colorful!
Fuck full screen of presentations! You need to see people's names on big ass squares covering the entire screen! That's where the money is! There is always a banana stand! (Don't know the context)
This actually is an improvement. Not everyone wants to be on camera and for those folks, getting pushed off to the sidebar often means they're overlooked.
This at least means they're given the same importance as anyone else.
No idea what the rant about presentations is about, when anyone presents it becomes the main content and everyone - camera or not - gets pushed to the sidebar. You can also pop out presentation content to give it it's own dedicated window.
I hate teams as a communication platform, but the presentation and meeting views are actually pretty well done compared to the competition.
this! i hate on zoom how it only focuses on people on camera.
in fact the only thing i hate is how horrible it runs in the browser in firefox :/
Much better UX, not hiding people that have turned off their camera.
Chill out, man. And also don't be a dumbass.
Shameless plug for a FOSS alternative:
I can’t even get my InfoSec team to let us use all the features we already pay for in our M365 E5 license because they can’t figure out how to secure and govern it. Unfortunately nowadays bringing up great ideas that are open source to replace mediocre big tech products mostly gets laughed out of the room 😢
This is awesome. But I'm a little suspicious. How is it completely free? Seems like video conferencing would use a lot of resources
Only if you route the video through the server. The modern design is to establish a connection through the server, then send the video directly from peer to peer. You can look up STUN, TURN, and ICE if you want technical details.
"There is always money in the banana stand" is from the TV series Arrested Development. Personally I prefer to turn incoming video off during meetings, as I find it distracting.
I fucking hate Teams.
Why is this 18+?
That's the legal age. I expected bad words.
That tag is for nsfw content like what you find on lemmynsfw, not to protect overly sensitive Americans.
Jitsi meet is better. It is OpenSource and more reliable imo.
Jitsi is one part of the solution. You need to integrate it into a messenger like matrix + element, and a dial in system / SIP trunk for rough parity. It's a little resource intensive to self host but well worth doing nonetheless.
True, integrating it into nextcloud is also a solution + it can replace MS Office completely
Honestly, I prefer this Zoom-style view over the way teams segmented put camera-off people in that tray. Those people often got skipped over.
any discussion about shit that bill or steve or the alphabet wankers do is a bigger waste of resources than AI art.
I agree, it must continue.
So teams is Now Safe For Work?
Nope. Not safe for work! Pass the word! We need to form a coalition.
