I've seen it individually recommended in a number of places.
Why? Well unlike (say) GoToMeeting or Webex, you can use it for free (albeit with a time limit). Until recently it had a much more modern, easy-to-use interface than GoToMeeting as well. Also, apparently it's one of the few videoconferencing solutions that works reasonably well in China.
Also, it apparently scales pretty well; one of the groups in my church apparently had nearly 100 people in a zoom.us conference last week. I didn't participate in that one, but there was a distinct lack of "and that was a disaster" comments.
I resisted using zoom for about two weeks, specifically due to the "start a local web browser to work around Safari's security features" disaster; but ultimately, you need to say "no" to every other person who wants to have a meeting with zoom, and eventually I just had to give up and install the client.
(I've been recommending meet.jit.si since it's 1) open-source 2) unlimited time for the free version 3) doesn't need to have a client installed.)
Why? Well unlike (say) GoToMeeting or Webex, you can use it for free (albeit with a time limit). Until recently it had a much more modern, easy-to-use interface than GoToMeeting as well. Also, apparently it's one of the few videoconferencing solutions that works reasonably well in China.
Also, it apparently scales pretty well; one of the groups in my church apparently had nearly 100 people in a zoom.us conference last week. I didn't participate in that one, but there was a distinct lack of "and that was a disaster" comments.
I resisted using zoom for about two weeks, specifically due to the "start a local web browser to work around Safari's security features" disaster; but ultimately, you need to say "no" to every other person who wants to have a meeting with zoom, and eventually I just had to give up and install the client.
(I've been recommending meet.jit.si since it's 1) open-source 2) unlimited time for the free version 3) doesn't need to have a client installed.)