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Interesting that this post made it to #1. It seems like Google marketing trick.

Anyone who uses the blue realizes that it's far lacking in quality from other offerings and Google Meet UI is very bad also.

Zoom, Teams, even WebEx are superior quality and usability wise.

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Curious to hear why? Google Meet is the only web-based videoconferencing product that works well for us without audio dropouts or random issues.

Zoom's web client is particularly terrible, and we can't install the desktop client for security reasons.

And the new background noise cancellation feature is magic.

We haven't run into issues with a self-hosted instance of Jitsi Meet. Might be worth a look.

We used to use Jitsi Meet and it worked perfectly for our team meetings, but we kept having issues with 10+ participants, overseas meetings with 100ms+ latency, and whenever Firefox was used. YMMV, one year ago.

Is your self hosted instance much higher quality than the public instance?

Google Meet UX is the worst. Except WebEx which is somehow even worse. But WebEx is at least "complicated" and bad, Meet is just bad.

Out of these I'm really surprised how "not as horrible" MS Teams are. Loads of functionality and the UX is bearable.

Can you elaborate your criticism? Meet seems fine to me.

My team does weekly Google Meet meetings along with WebEx. The biggest complaint I'd have is that Meet sacrifices functionality for cleanliness; everything useful is hidden behind some menu or popover, and you can only open one popover at a time (otherwise whatever you had open closes). This contrasts widely with WebEx, where most things (participants, controls, chat) can be shown at the same time, but also hidden if you don't want to see them. Meet seems complicated in comparison because views that are 0 clicks away on WebEx require 1-2 in Meet.

Basically what other comments suggested. The popup menu that shows every time I move with the cursor and covers part of the screen. Can't be hidden on demand. Shows status I can't see without opening it (and covering part of the screen). Can't change my mute status without opening it (and covering part of the screen) or using a very obscure shortcut.

I am confused. The microphone button is on the bottom bar, is clearly available at all times, and can always be clicked-on. You are using Google Meet within a browser?

The pop-up bottom bar. Yes, in a browser.

I am going to admit that Nvidia Broadcast looks absolutely amazing to me. It's likely to be the reason why my next GPU won't be AMD's new, even though it appears to deliver much more bang for the buck.

I already have RTX Voice now and it's the best thing ever.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce/news/nvidia-broadcast-a...

> Zoom, Teams, even WebEx are superior quality

Are they able to change the bg in the browser?

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