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Real engineering is about compromises.

In this case, relatively short numeric meeting ids allow users to dial in via plain old phone lines. If my meeting guests had to enter a UUID via their phone keypad, they would probably skip the meeting instead.

That actually makes sense I didn't know you could dial in with a phone.

Every time I read about a Zoom "screwup" I see a feature that's UX centric. It's pretty cool tbh.

> Every time I read about a Zoom "screwup" I see a feature that's UX centric. It's pretty cool tbh.

Like dialing Facebook even if you're not a Facebook user (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693792)?

I mean, this is intentional. They even allow you to set your meeting ID to a well-known number, like your company's published phone number.

If you want to join the all-hands meetings of a company I used to work for, you only need to go their website and lookup their primary phone number. That's the Zoom meeting ID.