Zoom

[Vagus]

What a marvellous invention.
Last night we had a wonderful over two hour conversation with family thanks to the above.
It was as if we were all sitting in our living room, having a drink and chatting. We had a laugh, we spoke about serious things, but just generally enjoyed being in each other’s company, virtually.
During all this corona stuff, I’m so grateful to technology.

[Bobbisox1]

Don’t you get charged after 35 minutes Vegus?

[Barmaid]

No you don't. I did a 17 party 2 hour meeting last week on there. All free.

[ToraToraTora]

yep, I use it for my weekly liquid lunch with the lads!

[Bobbisox1]

Must try it again for a virtual pub with the girls
Thanks

[Denton]

Thought it was only free for 40 minutes?

[ToraToraTora]

it is in theory but each time I've used it they have extended us. It's only a couple of clicks to get back in anyway.

[Bobbisox1]

Denton I knew I’d seen it somewhere

[Denton]

3T's has the right idea.

[Cloverjo]

How do they make any money from it?

[Vagus]

Times out after 40 minutes but as TTT says, couple of clicks and you’re back on.
No idea how they make their money, or how it works, but it does!

[Buenchico]

To answer some of the points above:
Zoom's 40-minute limit (for users of the free service) only applied when there were 3 or more users in the group; people using it for one-to-one communications didn't face such limits. However the limit was lifted altogether a few weeks back. (It's not clear whether it's just a temporary measure or whether the limit has gone for good though):
https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/working-from-home-meeting-tech-rules-coronavirus-a4391761.html

The firm makes its money from business-level subscription services (which include features such as the automatic recording of all conference calls):
https://zoom.us/pricing

[Bobbisox1]

Thanks Chris

[pixie374]

I have just suggested this for our quiz night tomorrow... nobody seems to know much about it yet, but we might well give it a go...

[Vagus]

One of our family does two ‘pub’ quizzes each week via zoom, they say it works really well.

[ToraToraTora]

a social club I go to do card bingo with it! I hate bingo of any kind but I applaud the effort.

[pixie374]

I'm not very techy... so will have to see. Seem to need to download Instagram app?