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easterncalculus 4 hours ago

What is the video calling and screen share experience like?

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crabmusket 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Zulip "shells out" to other apps like Zoom or Jitsi for this with a light integration in the UI.

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Firehawke 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd call that a pretty major feature omission since it means splitting things across multiple apps.

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shimman an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Why is it a major feature omission? Screen sharing isn't an easily solvable problem, there aren't any good FOSS libraries out there (at least that I'm aware of).

Expecting a way way way smaller team that didn't get $1billion in founding, like Discord did, is an extremely poor mindset to have.

All you're proving is the need to implement a tech tax to force companies to fund FOSS at the behest of the federal government, which frankly I'm all for.

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sumeno an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's a major omission because the voice and video integration is one of Discord's killer features. Sorry that it's hard, but something that doesn't integrate those seamlessly isn't a discord alternative

	▲	shimman 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Okay, I'm sure if they got $1billion in funding they could implement the same feature but expecting a way smaller team with way less resources to have parity with such a company is just unrealistic.

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unethical_ban 4 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Discord's main competitive advantages:

* Centralized identity, and participating in multiple communities at once: People sign up once, then navigate to whatever autonomous communities they choose quickly.

* No hosting requirement (good for ease of use): Want a new autonomous space? Create it! Boom! No installation, no hosting, no monetary cost.

* Video streaming: No other chat client does this easily. Not Mumble, Ventrilo, Teamspeak, or these chat programs.

If you want to defeat Discord, particularly in the gaming server arena, you need to make interacting with multiple servers better and you need screen/video streaming.

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justincormack 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No different to ising Slack and Zoom which is a very common combination.

	▲	sumeno an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It is when you're talking about competing with Discord which has very good voice and streaming support