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Am i the only one struggling to use Zoom properly since they introduced the latest security changes? The slack integration (write /zoom to start a meeting) was working ok-ish even though we always had problem with the meeting not starting unless the host of the meeting was logged in (gosh...why so complicated?)

Now they added this waiting room, there is no sound notification to let you know that people are waiting. Doing daily standup become a sufference. It's crazy how quickly they lost us as users with literally two badly implemented features.

Happy to hear if any of you also had the same struggle and if there is a good alternative.

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Maybe set a (strong) password instead of using the waiting room?

I think most of these are settings that can be changed in the advanced settings menu. Zoom changed the defaults, but you can still change the settings to what you prefer them to be

I would think that meetings being company users only by default could side step a lot of these clunky security measures. You would only need them for external meetings. No zoom bombing or war dialing issues with that default permission set.

The issue is that everyone with a gmail address is in the same "company", because they use your domain to determine what company you're in.

For our daily standup we use meet.google.com as it's more convenient than ZOOM. ymmv ofc

My company has been trying to find a solution since the Coronavirus hit. (We're not used to working from home)

We were using Slack's built-in conferencing at first, but aside from the quality being generally bad, there was a 15 person limit, and we're ~ 17 people.

I didn't want us to use Zoom with everything that's going on, so I suggested Google Meet. We tried it, and it worked, but not well—people's voices would frequently break up and become hard to hear.

And so we tried Zoom this past Monday.

It was incredible. I could actually hear and see everyone. I'm not happy about all their issues, but damn their product is just really good.

That's odd. We haven't had problems with google meet, so we use it. Though we use zoom too, for all hands meetings for whatever reason.

Maybe it's locality to the servers, or just packet loss heavy internet in your neck of the woods. Either way, I get it.

It's hard to argue that a product from targeted-advertising companies like Google and Microsoft wouldn't exhibit much worse privacy concerns, and the other major competitor, Cisco, was the architect of China's great firewall. Zoom works pretty great. I have been on very large conference calls almost daily over a year and they've been pretty flawless. They also sign HIPAA BAAs which is great for the industry I'm in.

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