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Laugh, cry and nod along as we Zoom into Teamā€™s Meet-ing issues. A case for why today's teams need a better meeting tool ā€”something that's more than a cluttered UI with subpar AI integrations, but more importantly, one that breaks the context silos!Not just our wordsā€¦

Once again I would like to remind everyone that the product manager at Zoom who decided that users should be forced to update before joining a meeting should be fired.

I am now 2 minutes late

Alex Cohen

Yeah

Elon Musk

@firefliesai You have been recording meetings and inviting your Fred bot in my name without authorisation and with me being unaware of this. Who should I speak with about this problem you are causing me? #problems of #automation and #AI

Susan FourtanƩ

Feta App is first and only meeting tool that breaks the information silo!

hey @otter_ai, we are longtime users of your product but now you are raising prices and for the past 2 weeks it keeps freezing up and quitting on us, bad timing to be seeking more $!

Daniel Roberts

Which group videoconferencing solution doesn't totally suck, apart from MS Teams? With arbitrary participant Ā sharing screen, no problems with headsets, etc. Discord sucks, Telegram sucks, Google Meet sucks, Slack's Huddle sucks

Roman Leventov

This is the worse message you can get from a saas platform like Ā 
@tldview. If you offer a free plan and you want to have people switching to your pro plan, your platform should be able to handle it. This message is sending a very bad message and gives me no trust in them

Raphael Maunier šŸ‡·šŸ‡Ŗ

Google Meet is the worst video conferencing product of all time, and it never gets better, only worse.

Duane Moore

The ā€œlate to every meetingā€ is to be taken literally with Zoom.

Tiago Costa

How is Zoom still around? Microsoft Teams and Google Meet are cheaper, not to mention a zillion other products. Is it a status thing -- people think you're fancier if you invite them to a Zoom?

Daniel Feldman šŸŸ„

Zoom option to watch participants as they wait for their update to finish so they can join a meeting

Soren Iverson

I can see @MicrosoftTeams is repeating the same mistakes as @Skype chat experience is just terrible and simply doesn't work. WhatsApp it is

Thomas Eljon šŸ¤˜

ā€¦.many of the other transcription AI apps, are just a transcription service which has a flow behind the scenes when a meeting is over which copy-pastes to ChatGPT with prompts. There's nothing smart about it and the summaries make no sense

Christopher M.

ur app is TRASH @MicrosoftTeams

lux is #TeamVanjie

Every time I'm in an all-day @WebEx seminaršŸ˜Æ

It needs so much juice it sucks down the power adapter *and* the battery šŸ˜µ

Blank

@Zoom why does your app keep crashing on MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1? Restarts my laptop every 5-6 times or so

Robert Anizoba

Every click and update like that matters. How many meetings moved off zoom bc of the inconvenience?

Maile

I'm always early to my meetings and interviews, I like to join at least 5-3 mins early.

But on some very few occasions, MTN will just be running mad. I opened a link 10 minutes to a meeting before, and before Zoom finally loaded up and let me it, I was 5 minutes late.

Oghenekaro

Thatā€™s crazy. Teams randomly stops working with no explanation and no steps to fix it.

Walter Whize

So I think fireflies is really good in summarization as a chrome extension.

In terms of meeting notes itā€™s bad. Canā€™t get accents, Ā so we all laugh reading it post the meeting.

Itā€™s hilarious .

Parves Shahid

Yes, Zoom's privacy practices are awful and Google Meet is awful

Noa Kahalon

Hot take: I'll take a Google Meet link over Zoom any day

Theo - t3.gg

I hope youā€™re fluent in sign language. Thatā€™s the only way Iā€™ve been able to reliably use Google Meet, because the audio consistently sucks or drops

impatienceisavirtue

Is there a video conferencing platform made for designers and artists? Something that prioritizes stream quality, has great annotation tools for working sessions, with multiple simultaneous streams, etc...
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Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex have some good features none of them feel great to use or hit the following points:
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- Good stream quality for art, video, gameplay.
- Desktop audio sharing
- Annotation
- Easy to use, not bloated. Good UI.
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"Linear is to JIRA what _____ is to Zoom." Basically.

Alex Schleifer

Today I hosted a live session on Zoom that had 300+ people registered. But evidently a Zoom Pro account, which is what I have, maxes out at 100 participants, so multiple people couldn't get onto the live session šŸ« šŸ« šŸ« 

A notification from Zoom letting me know I needed to upgrade to Zoom Business to accommodate all my Zoom registrants would have been simple, lucrative, and instilled so much goodwill. Instead, they created a frustrated customer.

Sara Wilson

Are fireflies leaving you in the dark? Are you Otter-ly confused by your notes? Can't Fathom why your meetings are a mess?

Feta is what you need!

This is the most funny and ridiculous thing I have ever read! Ā This is just a part of @MicrosoftTeams transcript from a recent meeting.

FYI, I don't have daughter.

Ashwin Jaiswal

Inertia. None of those products are multiples better, which is what it would take to move.

Henry Poydar

6 mos into working at a corp that uses WebEx for virtual meetings, i'm comfortable saying WebEx sucks

blighter

Zoom got you feeling doomed? Teams tearing at the seams? Meet's left you feeling beat?

ā€Feta is a treat!

This is the worst thing about zoom. Iā€™m pretty sure Iā€™m late to every meeting because of it.

Vic

Sigh - new set of bugs then... Amazing how #Skype still doesn't work properly after all these years!

Xanyar Kamangar

Now attempting skype via chromebook. Zoom doesn't work great on here either.

Catalina Eats at Death World

The @Skype icon has been following me for the last 15 years. I don't know how to get rid of this thing. I've tried everything. Deleting the app (obviously) doesn't work. Changing laptop and companies don't work either.

Ankur Shah

good lord i hate zoom calls

majukarp is saving for firefly

slack huddles work ok for audio and screen sharing. don't think there is any conferencing capability that always invites outside of workspace though.

MR. LUCKY

How is it possible that a huge enterprise application like Microsoft Teams just... doesn't work half the time? What even is that.

Santiago Ochoa

Make better decisions, move faster and stay in sync with the Feta.*

*Even when you miss a meeting.

Google Meet is fucking abysmal!

Itā€™s actually worse than web-Zoom, I think? It constantly locks up in Safari, or chucks me out of the video, and says ā€œYou lost your network connectionā€. I have a 900Mbps internet connection! I definitely have not!

Rhys Morgan

A lot of people responded with variations on "Teams and Meet suck"...

Which is just another question - why can't those companies make them good? They have all the money in the world to do it

Daniel Feldman šŸŸ„

Are you Zooming and Dooming? Are your Teams throwing Tantrums? Are your Meets causing Mayhem?

Well, you need a dose of the Feta!

When it actually works
@otter_ai is not bad. But it doesn't work much of time time in my experience.

Peter Margasak

I understand the
@firefliesai team are good people, so here's some open criticism:

Forcing me to login against my will to watch a video shared w/ me, *forcing calendar access*, and then stupidly starting a 7 day trial.. super poor form & probably net bad (or at least Iā€™d hope so)

Aaron White (Singularity.vc)

seriously @MicrosoftTeams you couldn't have designed less user-friendly meeting links even if you tried, right? they're SO HARD to work with: copy, paste, send in emails... bloody mess, half of the time the calendar doesn't recognise them

Fer

I'm honestly wondering: does Zoom's success say something about the value of design/UX in products?

Thorsten Ball

You know @otter_ai, charging me 50% more to get substantially less under the same plan is just incredibly bad way to treat customers. I was led to believe my current product at pro plan rate would be grandfathered in, too. Good /s job cultivating brand loyalty.

K H I (fka K i n c h e n)

ok so zoom was way better than incumbents bc of latency

but now we need a zoom competitor to pop up with WAAAAAAY better UX

who is building this???

Shriya Nevatia

Google is good at many things but Google meet sucks

Nimit Palija

ok so zoom was way better than incumbents bc of latency

but now we need a zoom competitor to pop up with WAAAAAAY better UX

who is building this???

Shriya Nevatia

Its weird how Microsoft Teams just doesn't really work and everyone is fine just carrying on using it,

Tom Goodwin

Teams on my personal laptop refuses to remember my camera settings and refused to work with the computerā€™s microphone this evening. Also refused to run from a browser for some random reason.

Jenny Ross

Is Meet falling short of the finish line? Are Teams running in different directions? Is Zoom ready for tomb?

Guess what, Feta makes your meeting workflows bloom.

at this point I think
@Zoom updates more than windows but yet I never see anything of value being changed.. what the hell is zoom even updating?

Cohezion | Tim šŸ§ šŸ¦„

That sir is a feature not a bug. The features intention is to help you miss meetings you should have skipped anyways.

mr cata

Sigh - new set of bugs then... Amazing how #Skype still doesn't work properly after all these years! šŸ™ˆ

Uzzi aka Usman Naeem

That sir is a feature not a bug.

The features intention is to help you miss meetings you should have skipped anyways.

Tyler Palmerj

Zoom people either:
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1. Use Zoom so much that theyā€™re already always updated

2. Donā€™t use their own product

The rest of us just have to suffer until they feel compelled enough to change it.

ALX šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø

Was wondering if my bad personal experience of @otter_ai was the rule or the exception. 68% negative reviews and a Poor rating on
@Trustpilot has answered my question.https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/otter.ai

Simon CharlesworthšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦

@otter_ai I sure do love your app but your search is real bad.

Is there any plan to improve it?

Ryan Levander

Has anyone left Zoom because of their ridiculous terms of service and because the commies listen in / store all your conversations?

If so, what did you switch to? I hate that we use zoom buuuut the alternative suck for other reasons.

Jake Chapman

All it takes for a company to lose you for life is to fool you once. I signed up to a monthly Adobe subscription, only to realized it was a *yearly* one paid monthly (?!) when I tried to cancel, and Adobe did not let me.

That was it: me done with Adobe. I cannot recommend them.

Gergely Orosz

I hate a bad onboarding sales strategy- I just had this experience with
@firefliesai they auto subscribed me without my permission

Theresa Brady

agreed. I used Zoom this morning. There is always some problem with it. Latency is one issue but I come across way more interface problems (logging in, audio, chat etc)

Vijar Kohli

@otter_ai I love your service overall (would love to be able to accept requests to share!) but your meeting summaries are hilariously bad :-)

Benjamin P. Taylor

Using teams is šŸš©šŸš©šŸš©(and I use ms business premium)

Lukasz Mlodyszewski

Automate your end-to-end meeting workflow with the Feta.

This is why Microsoft Teams is superior

Tridev Gurung

Iā€™m actually offended that another human being made this statement. šŸ¤®šŸ¤¢

Mason Bradford

@otter_ai is so incredibly bad, I can't believe they're charging me to hear MY OWN voice recordings. I can only hear my 25 most recent recordings, if I want to hear beyond that I have to pay?
It wasn't like this when I started using the service.

Can't believe this is even legal.

Siddharth Bhatia

Skype has been here since 2003. That is 20 years.

So how come the call button doesn't work?

Yuval Oren

Does anyone elseā€™s mobile @MicrosoftTeams app randomly get stuck for a message while typing but the next one is fine? Itā€™s so inconsistent #shoutingintothevoid

Samuel David

The only reason that PM has a job is bc they were fired from gotomeeting for doing the same thing.

Zach Ware

Zoom now crashes at least once a day, usually in the middle of meetings. starting to remind me of Homers website in the Simpsons the way Zoom are trying to add so much in, please just do meetings really well.

David Gildea

> gets a zoom call invite
> clicks on it
> waiting to update zoom

Saurabh Kumar

I hate Zoom with passion. You will open it so you can quickly join a meeting and that is when the idiot will start downloading an update. Update that you canā€™t cancel.

Very horrible product.

Toby

POV: you are late to join a meeting

Jacob Matson

Teams is the slowest, clunkiest, piece of junk EVER. Entire thing needs to be re-written.

The Honest Prickā„¢

i hate to say that iā€™m starting to agree. zoom is making everything overly complicated

nick ā€œlindyā€quist
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