Hacker News Reader

> Germany when the pandemic started all pupils could "voluntarily" sign up for MS Teams

Of course they never considered any open platform like Jitsi that did not require an actual account

I remember trying out jitsi in 2020 and calls with more than ~8 people were painfully laggy, others got logged out, etcpp. I don't imagine this working with classrooms of 20+ pupils. But there did exist alternatives like BBB which did mostly just work (or Zoom with similar issues like Teams)

Jitsi has nowhere near the featureset of Teams, they're not really comparable products. It's like arguing you can replace everything in your kitchen with a can opener. Video chat is just one part of a platform like Teams.

It sounds like they were simply using Teams for remote video

Reply on news.ycombinator.com