Potential Zoom / Google Meet Replacement
I just tried Tevent out as a Google Meet / Zoom replacement.
Pros:
- Just copying a link for a meeting is nice, really easy
- The workflow for people receiving the meeting link is easy as well, just enter your name, select a webcam and join
- The interface is clean, modern and uncluttered
Cons:
1) The button to leave a meeting needs to be pressed twice (as confirmation), this is an interface pattern that is not seen very often and which might confuse users. Here it would be better to either just quit (without confirmation) or show a modal to confirm.
2) BIG CON: For meeting attendees it looks like an account has been created after a meeting. This is super bad! They are forwarded to the Tevent dashboard where they are logged in using whatever name they entered at the beginning of the meeting. I can absolutely not use it like this for client meetings and hope the Tevent team improves the flow. I would expect that after leaving a meeting as an attendee, a minimal screen is shown that makes it clear that the meeting is now over. No dashboard should be shown, it should not be tried to sell the attendees anything or make them use Tevent themselves. In its current form, I cannot use this for meetings with clients, such a pity! Please fix this, without this dashboard forwarding / fake account creation, Tevent would be a great replacement for Zoom / Google Meet!
3) Available actions for attendees: attendees can start recordings and open a Miro board. Would be great if the meeting creator could disable this setting for attendees. In my case, I don’t want attendees to be able to start recordings or open Miro boards. So this is also stopping me from using it with clients.
I am still give 4 stars (even if I cannot use Tevent in its current form), because I have hope that the team will improve my cons above (in this case I will update my review and give 5 stars).
I haven’t looked into how to use Tevent as an events platform, yet, since the meeting functionality is much more important for me.
Tom_Tevent
May 9, 2024Hi Tim_P,
Thanks for the balanced review, and taking the time to use what we consider to be a secondary (the 1:1/group video meetings) feature.
It was important to us that the Stages (ie. broadcasted webinar format) is our focus, but we also wanted to give users the option to also replace Zoom/Gmeets/Teams with the same platform! We appreciate that there are some improvements that need to be made to get this particular feature up to par.
Regarding your questions:
1) Double confirmation - We made this decision as we often find it is too easy to accidentally quit calls in other platforms! However, I can see how this might be a step too far and will feed it back to the Dev team for (re)consideration 🙂
2) Attendees are automatically given a guest account - Thank you for feeding this back, and we will assess the flow for a 'one-off' use case where the attendee is unlikely to continue using Tevent as an organiser.
3) Attendees have organiser permissions for some actions - We agree that in some cases, the organiser won't want the attendee to have such permissions. We are actively looking into including more configuration options to give the meeting organiser the choice here.
We really appreciate your feedback and look forward to implementing the changes to get us from 4* -> 5* in your eyes 😊
Tom (CGO @ Tevent)