artyom@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoGive your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commetmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square103linkfedilinkarrow-up1608arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1596arrow-down1imageGive your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commetmedia.piefed.socialartyom@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square103linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·2 days agoThis seems like the better alternative to discord than the other centralized platforms
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 days agoThat’s a UX issue more than anything, IMO. Matrix is just a protocol
minus-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·2 days agoYes it is, at least for real-time chat. I don’t know if Matrix has voice chat.
minus-squareTheFogan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoyou can use voice and video rooms to my understanding of it, and yeah it can do calls. I haven’t really tested it much as my matrix server is just me and my wife, and neither of us are often out of eachothers sites very long.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoVoice/video usually supported by a TURN server. If you check out the link in the OP you can see this app supports it.
minus-squareAnafabula@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoThat’s the old way to support calls. The new way is MatrixRTC/Livekit. Not all clients support it yet, but the website says commet supports that too.
This seems like the better alternative to discord than the other centralized platforms
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That’s a UX issue more than anything, IMO. Matrix is just a protocol
UX is so important though
Yes it is, at least for real-time chat. I don’t know if Matrix has voice chat.
you can use voice and video rooms to my understanding of it, and yeah it can do calls. I haven’t really tested it much as my matrix server is just me and my wife, and neither of us are often out of eachothers sites very long.
Voice/video usually supported by a TURN server. If you check out the link in the OP you can see this app supports it.
That’s the old way to support calls. The new way is MatrixRTC/Livekit. Not all clients support it yet, but the website says commet supports that too.