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I was surprised they didn't mention that after clicking 'Leave Meeting', a popup comes up with a 'Leave Meeting' button in it, that actually leaves the meeting. This inevitably means in every single Zoom meeting that everyone says goodbye and then spends a few awkward seconds actually leaving the meeting.

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Better than risk of accidentally dropping out of meetings abruptly. I see many people still manage to do this and it takes a couple minutes to get them back on. There’s also the real fun one when the host ends meeting for all on accident. It’s same IRL when every says bye then awkwardly gathers belongings and leaves a conf room in silence

An alternative design, which I would generally consider superior, is to make it easy to undo leaving a meeting. (This wouldn’t work for the host under the current behaviour model, because the host leaving needs to either assign someone else to be host, or close the meeting for everyone. But you could do it this way for everyone else. Whether it would require waiting room approval again would be an interesting question, however. As usual, there are complexities to be considered.)

I have the exact same issue with joining a meeting. We use gsuite, so most meetings will have a zoom link in the subject or description. The order of operations for joining our daily standup is:

-> Click on link in calendar

-> Accept confirmation that the link is taking you offsite (Google's fault, admittedly)

-> Accept browser pop-up to allow me to open zoom app on MacOS

-> Then start with all of the other audio shenanigans listed at the start of the article.

Even with my zoom settings configured so that I don't need to confirm my audio settings every meeting, this is still far too many steps. There are likely ways to avoid the calendar-link steps by using the zoom desktop client's built-in scheduling calendar better, but I don't want to keep zoom running in the background all day (for a variety of reasons).

GoTo Meeting does this too. I always get a laugh from watching my coworkers faces drop while they navigate to the actual end button.

There is a setting to disable it.

That’s a very good point!

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