[ethelward]

> Zoom was the very first to let people join meetings without a) signing up; and b) downloading anything

E.g. BigBlueButton and Jitsi were doing it for much longer.

[krageon]

Both of those do not consistently work across a large organisation (1k+ users) without perfectly homogenous hardware. That means they're effectively unusable.

[ethelward]

For an overwhelming majority of Zoom users, scaling over 1k users is not a concern.

[Krasnol]

Which is irrelevant because those who knew about those are not the significant majority which is responsible for the success of zoom

[cycomanic]

So the point is not that zoom was better UX wise, but simply had better marketing, or not?