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I try matrix on occasion (as in, I set up my own server from scratch). The last time I tried it, support for multi-participant audio and video calls (and screen

I try matrix on occasion (as in, I set up my own server from scratch). The last time I tried it, support for multi-participant audio and video calls (and screensharing) was still between terrible and nonexistant. Definitely much worse than Discord. Has it improved?

feanaro 7y ago
There were some bug fixes in the last year (IIRC) though nothing very substantial, I think. Then again, it's always worked reasonably well for me and I'm using it regularly. I heard it was going to get worked on soon, though.
- Arathorn 7y ago
  There was a major upgrade to the conference calling about 6 months ago which took it from being "barely usable" to "almost as good as Zoom". It's different semantics to Discord in that it's classic conferencing rather than a voice channel, but it works well enough for the whole core Matrix team to use it basically constantly for remote collaboration. The conferencing servers are currently in London however, so you may suffer from transatlantic traffic problems if you are elsewhere in the world.
  - feanaro 7y ago
    Ah, thank you for the additional information. Is my grapevine information correct that more work will be done to improve video calls and screensharing in the coming months? As an example of what could be improved, I do still encounter the occasional bug with call synchronization, the video stream of one of the sides not getting started on occasion and screensharing is hardly discoverable.
  - pteraspidomorph 7y ago
    Good to know!