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

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

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 2 hours 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

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shimman an hour 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.

	▲	sumeno an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not expecting anything from anybody, but I'm also not switching to a discord alternative that doesn't support those features

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unethical_ban an hour 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.

	▲	shimman 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Discord's main competitive advantage was getting a cool $1billion in founding and being able to support a massive team without the need to worry about profit for the entirety of its existence.

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justincormack 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	sumeno 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is when you're talking about competing with Discord which has very good voice and streaming support