Discourse's own forum is very active which made me confident I could get help if I needed it. That made me confident I could modify it to meet our exact needs. Discourse is open source, written in Rails with Ember.js on the front-end. I looked at paid, closed-source options like AnswerHub and ForumBee and old-school solutions like phpBB and vBulletin, but none seemed to offer the power, flexibility and developer-friendliness of Discourse. Because the community was already large, I felt that a chat platform like Discord or Gitter might be overwhelming and opted for a forum-like solution instead (which would also create content that's searchable from Google). There are a ton of platforms out there that can be used to host communities, and they tend to fall into two categories - real-time sync (like chat) and async (like forums). Shortly after I joined Algolia as a developer advocate, I knew I wanted to establish a place for the community to congregate and share their projects, questions and advice. #WebAndVideoConferencing #videochat See more One of our engineers, Jerome, actually built a cool little Slack integration using the Slack API and Zoom API so that every time a recording is processed, a link gets posted to the 'event-recordings' channel. Meeting recordings (video and audio) are really nice, you get recordings stored in the cloud on the higher tier plans. There's a G Suite (Google Calendar) integration which lets you add a Zoom call (w/dial in info + link to web/mobile) with the click of a button. You can schedule recurring calls which is helpful. The Slack integration was awesome (just type /zoom and it starts a call) We noticed the video/sound quality was better, and more importantly it was super reliable. We ended up trying Zoom after I had heard about it from some friends at other companies. We all had high hopes when the acquisition went through but ultimately, the product just didn't live up to expectations. Video and sound quality was often times pretty bad and worst of all the service just wasn't reliable. Using Screenhero via Slack was getting to be pretty horrible.

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