HACKER Q&A
📣 evolve2k

If not Zoom. What to use for large group video with breakout rooms?


So Zoom is getting lots of valid privacy heat. One big issue is that it’s currently the best tool for large facilitated meetings (think 50+ ppl) where the breakout room is the killer feature here and you can auto break people into smaller group chats as part of running a large group session.

The use case is public video meetups, so using say Microsoft Teams would be excessive.

Anything else out there that’s up for the challenge?

(The other killer feature they have is URL based session invites that just makes it much easier to get people on a call)


  👤 totg Accepted Answer ✓
BlueJeans https://www.bluejeans.com/ Check it out, Better than Zoom and everything else out there

👤 leroyg
https://jitsi.org/

I have used this successfully.


👤 WhatsInAName78
Twenty Three is a decent option. Breakout rooms, different URL-based invites for both participants and viewers (participants share the video feed and viewers simply view, but also have a chat option).

👤 shams93
Janus gateway + gstreamer is one way to handle this.

👤 jbd28
BigBlueButton

👤 Raed667
Google Meet handles our 100+ person persenations no sweat.

👤 kull
Google hangouts / meet