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What sucks about Zoom calls?

From Zoom fatigue, to connection issues, what do you really hate about Zoom calls?

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    I hate Zoom makes everyone feel the way people on TV feel every slouchy every mumble every interruption is magnified. Audio-only meetings work better for our team.
    Tappy🎙️ is built for "No Zoom fatigue."

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    Probably that I'm considered the 'expert' at zoom on a team of software engineers, simply because I know where the 'invite' and 'allow sharing' buttons are. So I would say that the interface is overly-complicated for simple/core features. I'm sure people can find these things on their own, but they shouldn't have to FIND a invite button in my opinion.

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      Zoom originally positioned itself as a large enterprise solution and they provided employee training in closed deals (features/functionality/security settings). Now that they've been the go-to for so many millions of people, they clearly don't do that.

      It wasn't ever designed for simple usage by the masses, it was built for enterprises to compete against Webex, GotoMeeting (et al) and it likely included a post-sales engineer and technical support.

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      I think forgetting that not everyone can share screens in a Zoom call and needing a 10-second pause each time to turn it on for others during meetings is definitely unneccessary friction. Finding stuff is annoying! (Also some of the settings are in the desktop app, but some are located in Zoom web 🤔)

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    That we're forced to do it because there's a pandemic.

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      True.. Although remote work seems to be here to stay, and Zoom probably is too.

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        They are with us to stay, I would imagine. They experienced 367% revenue growth in Q3, 355% growth in Q2, and 169% growth in Q1. They had 40 million users in 2015 and grew to 300 million Zoom meetings daily this year. They did $330 million in FY 2019 and $622 million in FY 2020.

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