I was once on a team responsible for, among other things, the status page of a pretty big, important product. I always new somewhere in the back of my mind that status pages were not 100% accurate, but it was still a shock to hear my boss's boss flat out tell all the new hires that the page was mostly advertising and politics and that we only ever updated it if a VP had decided that it was ok if there were news stories about the incident.
While we're here and probably need a quick alternative, does anyone know of a screen sharing service that allows you to share a portion of the screen and not just a tab/app? I'm on an ultrawide monitor and it's a real pain screensharing.
I've tried tuple, tandem, google meets.. none of those allow it.
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.
iirc zoom has some features like annotation that only work over a "screenshare" as it understands them, and not on other surfaces.
it's possible to go one step further with OBS, take your capture camera and open a "windowed projector" and just share that window with zoom. then you have a window with a view manipulable from within OBS but zoom understands it as a screen capture too.
I can't share the whole screen, with an ultrawide if the participants don't also have UWs the wind up seeing basically a skinny sliver of my screen, its just too wide (49").
What I used to do was use PBP mode and split it into 2 screens but I don't really want to have to do that.
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.
I am a card-carrying Microsoft hater and I have to say that I find Teams to be quite good all in all. Shockingly so in fact given my general expectations about Microsoft products. (I use Teams at work where I have no choice otherwise I would not touch it with a ten foot pole.)
Our Fortune 500 company uses the conferencing tool that I wrote up over a weekend, and when the exec asked me to auto-enable webcams, I immediately put my foot down and said no. I was considering disabling cameras altogether, but arguably that was too forward thinking for the company at the time.
I really wish there was more use of Jitsi and other alternatives that would allow you to host on other servers etc. Not because I dislike Zoom but just because (1) competition is good, and (2) there's always situations like this either globally or locally that arise and it would be nice to have more options.
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.
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> If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.
> Faithfully yours, nginx.
https://status.zoom.us/ - All Systems Operational
Seems fine to me.
Edit: Looks like the status page says MAJOR OUTAGE now.
“Nope. Leave it green.”
Seems like in process calls are fine.
On the bright side my productivity is up 84% since I can’t join meetings.
I've tried tuple, tandem, google meets.. none of those allow it.
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.
it's possible to go one step further with OBS, take your capture camera and open a "windowed projector" and just share that window with zoom. then you have a window with a view manipulable from within OBS but zoom understands it as a screen capture too.
What I used to do was use PBP mode and split it into 2 screens but I don't really want to have to do that.
You could be forced to use an internal video conferencing solution.
Don't ask how I know.
It's been 25–30 minutes since I first encountered the error and posted it here.
An executive's desire for a sea of carefully self-monitored faces will not be denied.