Zoom was down

Someone is debating with a VP right now… “But our whole website is down! We have to update the status page.”

“Nope. Leave it green.”

At my place in Germany works zoom.us as always very well. Website is working for me.

Google Meet works great! Doesn't require anything installed either, just works in-browser. I wish my employer used it instead of Zoom. Google uses it internally for all meetings, so it's probably not going anywhere either.

I just saved the day for the Sagemath dev meeting an hour ago by getting us to all use Jitsi instead of the broken zoom. Most of the other participants hadn't used Jitsi before, so it was a nice opportunity to introduce them to it. I would also add another point to your list above, which is (3) Jitsi is open source (APACHE licensed -- https://github.com/jitsi) and you can use it without creating an account or self host it. It seems to be a great project that deserves more popularity and support.

Our scrum master created a Teams meeting but we ended up using Slack huddles.

I use teams every day for meetings and never have any issues.

Oh...it could be much worse than that.

You could be forced to use an internal video conferencing solution.

Don't ask how I know.

Slack

What I've done before is use OBS to capture a potion of a screen, then start its virtual camera and use that as the camera input for whatever service I'm using.

You can set up different scenes too to switch between camera, region of screen, and whatever else you may want.

I'm a big fan of this set up too because then it doesn't matter what service you use. Whether you're in a Teams meeting with your team, Zoom with a client, Discord with friends, same set up across the board.

Pretty sure Google Meet lets you share your whole screen if you want. But probably not just a slice of it.

That would just result in a new, slightly worse conferencing tool emerging.

An executive's desire for a sea of carefully self-monitored faces will not be denied.

I kinda wish everybody here had forgotten about that option. Was prepared to get some serious heads down time.

I hope Zoom's SRE team has a fallback for incident response coordination...

Data plane OK; control plane KO.

I was on a zoom call 10 am to 11 am and it worked fine. Hung up from that one and couldn’t get on my 11 am one.

Seems like in process calls are fine.

On the bright side my productivity is up 84% since I can’t join meetings.

nginx error for me

if you join via a link, it routes through their website but it seems to work fine via the app.

It doesn't seem like the call service was down but their website, the service that would route you to connect to the call, thus Zoom links are broken. Indeed, I was able to join a meeting at 10:57 but nobody was able to join the same meeting two minutes after that.

Indeed. It's time for jitsi or other FLOSS alternatives.