[META] BBB integration - VideoChat

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TheMatten

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/14763

It would be great to have Zulip support Big Blue Button as a Video Chat Provider. For the time beeing I worked around this by writing a Bot to generate a Link to Big Blue Button, but it would be re...
Georgi Lyubenov // googleson78

BBB has not been great from what I've seen from usage in my university, I still prefer jitsi, but maybe it's just because of the instance

it has some more features that could be useful though like e.g. an administrator can split off people into groups to work together

TheMatten

We use it on our university too - it seems to have some quirks sometimes, but honestly that was my experience with every conference app I've ever used - it's pretty nice in general

TheMatten

Jitsi is more practical having actual mobile app - but I guess additional features of BBB could be useful sometimes

Georgi Lyubenov // googleson78

the thing that I really liked about jitsi was that everyone could share their screen at the same time, meaning that I could have a half-decent exercise with students where I can look at their screens and help them out individually

Georgi Lyubenov // googleson78

and there's even the "look at my buddys screen because I'm stuck" aspect to it too :D