We’ve seen a serious uptick in misinformation about Element and Matrix over the last week, so thought it would be useful to set the record straight from Element’s side.
Oic, so not Matrix itself, but Element adding another service in its client.
Does it have any amount of integration though? - As in, can someone using a Matrix client other than Element (and not supporting the Jitsi thingy) know if any 2 users of Element are doing an audio chat?
Element 1-on-1 calls are based on WebRTC, and are native as I see it. I’m not sure if this works with multiple people, haven’t tried it yet but I think so.
The video calls work over a Jitsi plugin, but it’s quite bad. Element Call is a Matrix-native video solution and is currently in beta.
I don’t know. I know the first implementation in element just had jitsi rooms but you couldn’t see if anyone was in them, so discoverablity was really bad
element does, based on jitsi webrtc
Oic, so not Matrix itself, but Element adding another service in its client.
Does it have any amount of integration though? - As in, can someone using a Matrix client other than Element (and not supporting the Jitsi thingy) know if any 2 users of Element are doing an audio chat?
I run my own Matrix server. (tuwunel ftw)
Element 1-on-1 calls are based on WebRTC, and are native as I see it. I’m not sure if this works with multiple people, haven’t tried it yet but I think so.
The video calls work over a Jitsi plugin, but it’s quite bad. Element Call is a Matrix-native video solution and is currently in beta.
I don’t know. I know the first implementation in element just had jitsi rooms but you couldn’t see if anyone was in them, so discoverablity was really bad