Anyone else having Zoom issues right now?

[Ron Obvious]

According to https://downdetector.com/status/zoom/ there seems to be a pretty massive spike of Zoom issues starting about an hour or two ago. It's not working for me -- no video for anyone and audio only for some. Weird.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Church services?

[Ron Obvious]

2. Not in my case,

But it could certainly be that that's why it's overloaded, yeah.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Can't think of any other reason why Zoom would be crashing on Sunday morning,

unless something broke. The normal non-fundie churches are doing online services these days.

[Ron Obvious]

7. It's not crashing

It's just that there isn't any video except for oneself, audio for about 2/3ds of the participants, the host unlocking key doesn't work and "raising hand" works for only some. Some audio is very choppy too.

It's weird.

[USALiberal]

4. https://downdetector.com/status/zoom/

[lapfog_1]

5. maybe Aretha has an answer

[beaglelover]

6. Crap I have a zoom pilates class in an hour. Hope it gets fixed!

[beaglelover]

18. Zoom worked fine for class this morning.

[ItsjustMe]

8. Why would anyone use Zoom

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2020/04/13/500000-hacked-zoom-accounts-given-away-for-free-on-the-dark-web/#2b73db9058c5

https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/fbi-warns-of-hackers-hijacking-online-zoom-meetings-classes/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security-coronavirus-video-conferencing

https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-bug-webcam-hackers/

[Ron Obvious]

10. I know

I was loath to install it myself, but had to bow to the pressures of the group.

Zoom claim to have fixed many of the problems -- your guardian article, at least, is over a month old -- but I remain weary.

[ItsjustMe]

12. Zoom was also sending data to

Facebook

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-data-to-facebook

[Ron Obvious]

13. That particularly enraged me

Facebook hater that I am, with all the browser extensions to block it and all.

[ItsjustMe]

14. Google banned Zoom

Google has banned the Zoom app from all employee computers over 'security vulnerabilities'


https://www.businessinsider.com/google-bans-zoom-from-employee-computers-due-to-security-concerns-2020-4

[frazzled]

15. Google Meetings sucks

Sorry, but Zoom is a much better application. (And further, new encryption is coming on new Zoom software May 29; though unless you are keeping company secrets or sensitive political strategy, it really isn't very important. If you're just having cocktail hour with friends or talking to grandma, who cares about security.)

Honestly, had a Google Meeting session on Friday and it was awful in every way.

[Ron Obvious]

16. I'm sure the fact that they have a competing product is a complete coincidence n/t

[ItsjustMe]

22. To my knowledge

Google has not banned any other popular video chat apps.


Discord

WhatsApp

Microsoft Teams - Paid

Jitsi

BigBlueButton

Skype

Google Meet

Free Conference Call

[Ms. Toad]

20. Because, hijacking issues aside, the technology is far superior

to everything else I have tried.

Google is awful. WebEx Meetings is a distant third; WebEx Taining is a closer second.

When I'm required to use WebEx, I use WebEx training - but otherwise I use Zoom.

[Swede]

9. A relative was on a conference on Zoom and child porn popped up.

He said you can't unsee that.

[Ron Obvious]

11. That's why most have gone to closed (password-protected) meetings

As far as I know those haven't had problems with Zoombombers.

Actually, I don't even know how Zoombombers find the meetings code to begin with unless it's just by random luck and wardialing.

[PA Democrat]

17. I had problems with video for one participant.

It seemed to be a Zoom issue because the camera was enabled for zoom and was working for other apps.

[Ms. Toad]

19. Maybe -

I just got off of a zoom conference with my class. Since it was voluntary and the first one I've held for this class I don't know what normal attendance will be - but only about half of the classs showed up, and one person showed up without video and muted (then left). That was during the peak time for the reported issues.

[milestogo]

21. I was watching a service and it kept going offline.

Video, not zoom. Doesn't usually happen.