r/Zoom

Hi all,
I was wondering where most of you release your first game and find your initial players.
I recently released my first mobile game on iOS, but it’s been tough getting anyone to discover it. The handful of people who have played it have given positive feedback, but finding those first players has been much harder than I expected.
Now I’m trying to publish it on Google Play, and I’ve hit the requirement of finding enough testers before release. It’s made me wonder whether I’m going about this the wrong way.
How did you all get your first players and feedback? Did you launch on mobile first, or did you build a community somewhere else before releasing?
For anyone who’s curious, the game is called Missed Flight. Feel free to check it out if you’d like, but I’m mainly interested in hearing how others tackled this early stage.

I’ve run hundreds of high level, high complexity Zoom calls over many years. I’m in a new and very meaningful context where a lot of participants are in locations with weak and unreliable internet. The calls are teaching and learning, and very interactive.

What are the best instructions I can give participants to minimize bandwidth?

Turning off their cameras as needed is of course a start. “Stop incoming video” makes quite a difference and is often not available – and I don’t understand when and why.

I have an issue: the Zoom app works great with Wi-Fi, but I want to use Ethernet for a more stable, higher-speed internet connection.

When I plug in the Ethernet cable, all other apps work fine except Zoom. In Zoom, the stats show 0 kb/s (send) and roughly 133 kb/s (receive). Because bandwidth is completely 0 kb/s, incoming video feeds from other participants go completely black, but the audio works. Every 5 minutes or so, I get a message: 'Your connection is unstable.'

I tested the bufferbloat grade, and it was A+ (the latency does not increase under load). Things I tried include switching the network profile from public to private, and I verified that Zoom video conferencing is allowed on both public and private networks in Windows Defender Firewall.

What could be the issue?

I got this notification while the screen became gray. It said “zoom meeting windows are masked to prevent screen capture. disconnect the screen recording to continue” using obs. Only audio can now be recorded, does this mean the host is notified? What about using audio recording apps only, will they also be notified?

Thanks!

Hi everyone!

I’m conducting an independent UX research study on ZoomMate and am looking for participants.

I’m looking for people who:
Have used ZoomMate at least 4 times in the past month
Use it for work or study

Duration: 60minutes
Compensation: US$25 Amazon Gift Card

We’ll talk about:
How you use ZoomMate
What works well
Pain points or frustrations
Features you’d like to see improved

This is a personal UX research project. No sales or marketings are involved. Your responses will be kept confidential and used only for UX research.

If you’re interested, please send me a DM with:
How long you’ve been using ZoomMate
Approximately how many times you’ve used it in the past month
Your time zone

Thank you!

I’m curious about your experience. Was it actually useful in real meetings?

Nothing malicious, I just want to find something to do or find a new hobby to stay occupied.

We run courses online using Zoom, and although participants sign contracts saying they will not use anything to record the course (to protect our IP), we find that every course has at least 1-2 people using transcribing extensions etc. (Edit: these tools are not coming in as extra users, they're just through the actual participant's "user").

It's likely not malicious, as it's probably their normal day-to-day way of dealing with meetings, but for us, we have protected our IP fairly well, but we rely on asking them to turn it off and then trust them when they say they have.

However, from a UX angle, it would be less disturbing to them if we didn't need to essentially, awkwardly remind them to turn it off or the T&Cs.

So is there a way to just stop or garble the transcription apps?

EDIT: I specifically come up against "tactiq" extension a lot.

EDIT2: I realise people think we have a one-dimensional approach to this issue or that we don't realise people will always get around security if they want it bad enough. So to reassure the sceptics: We do make them sign comprehensive contracts and have a page that highlights specifics like not recording/transcribing our courses. We have lawyers in many countries, we are in contact with governments to stop any that are openly selling our course, we have many secret watermarks across many of our mediums. We are in the process of redesigning the course to hopefully avoid this issue in the future. So I really was just looking for something to tide us over (or solve it) so that we can protect something researchers spent their own money and lives researching and are only now getting starting to get their money for. But AI is quickly absorbing this and giving away the knowledge and work for free. It's part of a bigger pathway, but originally didn't think it was necessary context for figuring out the zoom portion of the issue.

Also, if there are any other free options please let me know.

Previously when I got a message, the Zoom taskbar icon would show a notification dot icon and sometimes flash too.

Since the last update, this no longer happens. I keep missing messages but there's no indication that I have one. the only way I can tell if I have a message is to open Zoom and look.

I've been through all the settings and have all the notification stuff turned on. There doesn't seem to be a specific option relating to the taskbar icon.

Is this happening to anyone else? Is there something I can do to get this feature back?

I'm on Windows 11.

I notice a lot of these from years ago but no fixes. Zoom literally kills my ethernet and router - have to go reboot the router and reset network on PC. Wifi works fine. Can’t find any support on Zoom regarding this.Not an isolated incident btw, happens pretty much every time I connect to Zoom. Today it happened simply logging in to my account through the zoom website.
Any clues?
Thanks all.

title says it all

I want to be able to take a pre-existing meeting I have already created, and add extra days for the meeting (it is a meeting that repeats every week). I also want this meeting to not generate a new link, but retain the old link. Is this possible?

Sometimes I just need a 2-5 min conversation with someone and opening Zoom, sending meeting links, etc feels like too much.

I've been building a small project called GhostCall for this exact thing. It's basically temporary browser-based voice calls through a link, no signup or phone numbers.

Curious if anyone else has this problem or if I'm the only one 😅

as a IT professional working for last 15+ years , i often have to be on call with my team and other stakeholders in team or customers. Often, this forum discusses different opinions and constructive debates on ideas. often, these meetings get confusing because too many ideas/proposals/opinions are discussed.

i have a few problems

1. too many proposals get discussed, a lot of them

2. too many swings in the meeting from proposal 1 to proposal 2

3. if i lost track 30sec i miss the context whats getting discussed

4. i need a tonality check for a specific person speaking

do you feel meetings are conducted effectively?
whats your biggest problem in online meetings?

Hello po. Please help me 🙏

I've installed the latest version of Zoom on my laptop and upon joining a meeting, the app keeps on crashing until i can't join anymore.

I've tried to uninstall then install the app but the result's still the same. I don't know what to do na po. I know that i can use zoom via browser, but still, the app would still be better.

Please help me 🙏🙏

Thank you!

Look, I am trying to schedule Zoom Meetings, IN ZOOM. So simple, right?

But literally every google search, zoom article, and the app itself ASSUME WITHOUT EVER ASKING that I mean for meetings that I host.

NO.

FOR MEETINGS I HAVE TO JOIN. Recurring meetings that happen every Monday at 6am or Friday at 5 pm on and on.... I have a dozen a week, they often happen while I am mobile, and quite often that means while driving.... and using my own smartphone notifications to create the notifications then putting the zoom creds in there so I know what to type in.... ugh... then opening the app...ugh.... typing all those numbers in on the TINY NUMBERS since the numbers only zoom meeting ID doesn't open 10 key numbers keyboard but the ALPHANUMERIC kb where the numbers are TINY.... then clicking through prompts, tabbing over to the reminder again to get the passcode, blah blah blah.

I have assumed from the start that it must be an obvious, included feature to set all that up ONCE in the mobile app, with all details, from my Zoom account on a REAL hardware keyboard, and then when I am on the road, notification pops up, I click it, it uses the already provided connection details to JOIN the meeting and I can AMAZINGLY, in 2026, BOTH make all my meetings AND not endanger everyone on the road around me without having to find an exit and pull over, join late, blah blah blah.

But every google search just assumes that ANYTHING ZOOM RELATED, that has a regularly recurring time to join, SIMPLY MUST BE A MEETING YOU HOST, NOT A MEETING YOU JOIN?

It's insane how little(ZERO) documentation I can find for such an obviously required feature.

We host a recurring weekly Zoom training and are trying to find a way to capture attendees' email addresses so we can send the replay without requiring Zoom registration.

For 2.5 years, we required registration for every session, but the biggest complaint was having to register every single week. We switched to a recurring Zoom link with a vanity URL so people can simply join the same link every week. We pay for AddEvent so attendees can easily add it to their calendars across time zones.

After each call, we can download the attendee report via zoom with names and time spent on the call, but not email addresses. I know we could require registration through Zoom or AddEvent, but would defeat the purpose of having made this change to vanity URL in the first place.

Is there any way to capture attendee emails without adding a registration step? Or is registration the only way Zoom provides that info?

Any creative ideas are welcome! TY!

Long story short I left a corporate job 5~ years ago and had a zoom subscription through the corporate account. I never noticed the zoom transactions in my billing history until now.

I recorded the call, so did zoom, Infact the agent admitting to no use.

I was completely shut down when I asked about compensation at the end of the phone call. I understand it's my fault for not realizing sooner but you guys not having a red flag thing that keeps dinging people's accounts that are completely inactive is basically stealing.