Totally can see how some folks out here value their data a lot more and want to keep things private! That's where TeamSpeak will always thrive! I totally dropped it as soon as Discord became popular, not because I didn't like it - but literally everyone moved over, I didn't want to be left behind. I'm glad to see TeamSpeak is still out there. I guess they were still on the fence over whether to launch Meet as its own thing or as part of old Hangouts, before they decided to shut down old hangouts) I don't think there was any way from one to the other in the UI, Google had a g.co/hangouts link to get to it and I think the unshortened URL just had an extra underscore component in the path. There was another link on the same domain to go to the meeting listing/creation screen now at. (Hangouts anecdote: In the early days, went to the more well known hangouts for users app which had a contact list UI and a different video call interface. Google's loss was that they had pushed Meet (formerly Hangouts Meet, formerly "Hangouts, no the other Hangouts") as a business only thing while they were pushing Allo/Duo as the consumer apps and chasing the whatsapp/imessage market that year because of their addiction to launching a new chat app every year. Meet had that feature long before the pandemic? Certainly was using it when it was just branded "Hangouts" (no relation to the end user Hangouts) in like 2018. In short, as long as you're not buying communication services from a competitor, you're probably fine. Running the audio through speech-to-text before discarding the audio may be a threat, but not for users whose office lingua franca is in a language not supported by contemporary speech-to-text tools, let alone automatically deciphering which language the users in a given voice channel are speaking without it being defined ahead of time. Even if, from a security perspective, it would be ideal to host it yourself - for most companies it's simply economically impractical.ī) Granted that you accept the risk of your vendor recording your communications, the odds of those communications being recorded are much, much lower for voice communications than they are for text communications, for the sheer cost of storing voice and video data. The IT workload to run all of the above is extremely high, prohibitively so for startups and small companies. For what it's worth, such a security stance also requires you to run your own email servers. You run the risk that the vendor is recording what you do on the other end of that connection. For example, being able to run a public Discord instance for customer support, with individual rooms per customer, and customer screen sharing and get anybody in the company to leave their team office on the private instance and join the support call in two clicks is mind-blowing.Ī) If you're willing to accept using a SaaS for corporate communications, then Discord is no different than Slack. They're leaving huge sums of money on the table. I appreciate that Discord is gamer-focused branding, but their inability to launch more or less the same product under a professional brand is astounding. We'd probably be willing to pay four or five times as much, especially if it would allow us to host video/screen-shares with more people. It's so underpriced for the corporate usecase, it's practically criminal. We only pay $75/month, for two levels of server boosting. The persistent voice channel is the absolutely crucial benefit above and beyond the "click-to-start-a-call" UX on other platforms. We use Discord in a professional context as a kind of virtual office, with voice channels set up for team offices and meeting rooms.
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