Zoom has great technical innards, but a clumsy, awkward user interface that can fail for some use cases. They have convinced some hosts to disable private chat, and require that private messages be sent via the host, manually! They have convinced some hosts that participants should wait until the host lets them into the room, one by one! Both pieces of advice interfere with ease of use for questionable benefit.Ĭompanies that are open and request feedback and suggestions, produce far more useful products.

The Zoom company has funny ideas about security. That’s not how hashing is used to make passwords secure! They should ask a security expert and learn that it doesn’t. If only the Zoom company would let us know what the hash function is… I guess they erroneously believe that keeping the hash function secret increases security. Visit any of a set of meetings using my text editor, which can open URLsĪ simple use case, yet one that Zoom apparently doesn’t support andĬan’t even understand, even after message after message clarifying theĪdnan, I think you are right. So I want to maintain simple text file containing URLs+password so I can Even LastPass doesn’t seem to be of help. So, when a meeting has a password, you have to enter the Meeting remembers the last few meeting IDs but, strangely, not their URL+password so I could put it into a file for later use to join theĪnother part of the use case is that the Zoom dialog box for entering a Wanted a simple tool that would take an ID and a password and create the

You can click a link in a PDF reader to visit the link in aīrowser, but you can’t copy the link value, at least not easily. URL+password hyperlink, an ID, and a password for a meeting I wanted toĪttend.

The use case that prompted this question was a PDF file that contained a

Zoom link with meeting id