Your discussion of "real time video chat clients" has me cracking up; it seemed that a myriad of pieces of software had this figured out in the 2000s, but today I can't think of a single piece of software that I'd actually want to use for video chat. All of them have some fatal Achilles' Heel: Facetime has security problems/previously did not have group chats/is exclusive to Apple OSes, Skype is laggy and has more connection problems than any piece of software I've ever used, Google Hangouts chokes once you get to 3 or 4 participants and frequently has issues with even 2 participants, Duo is only usable on Android/iOS as far as I know... does anybody have a good client that they can actually recommend?Myself, I've gone back to using Ventrilo because I realized that I really don't care about having video.
com2kid|7 years ago
Firefox Hello worked remarkably well IMHO, it was super simple to use.
The field is full of video chat clients though. Uber-Conf is popular, although I think the % of problem free calls I've had with them is less than 50%.
Zoom has worked well for me, no real issues.
Facebook Messenger, privacy issues aside, works well.
petra|7 years ago