Take control of mouse remotely (desktop app only).Grid view (unlimited, with up to 25 onscreen at a time).These are the features we tested, but there are many more (too many to list) with others in the works (for instance, a filter to blur your background was in beta when we tested): Even the default URL strings are sane: they tend to be somewhat long, but they're built using common words, so they're easy to type if you don't happen to have a clickable link handy. One of its unique features is that it allows you to create channel names, so instead of a long, complex URL (like /7ab9ecd340aaed_9fe2ac588466), you can invite someone to /Seth-Chris-Chat23 (or anything meaningful or easy to recall). The project itself is healthy, too, having been acquired by 8x8 in 2018, which has proven to be a good custodian of the open source codebase, with a focus on new features, usability, and reliability.

Jitsi proved to be a robust and powerful platform, requiring no registration or download, but providing plenty of features to manage a group chat and diagnose connection health.

The desire for a comparative review of the capabilities and performance of open source conference software and platforms.

Concern over recent reports about security risks in closed-source video-conferencing systems, including unwanted attendees interrupting meetings and stealthy sharing of attendees' information.

Our investigation was motivated by two main issues:

Stuck indoors like most of the rest of the world, a group of editors and correspondents- Seth Kenlon, Matt Broberg, Alan Formy-Duval, Jessica Cherry, and Chris Hermansen-decided to use their far-flung locations and variable-quality internet connections to try out several open source video-conferencing solutions.

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