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Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by ianbooker on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:45AM (#27435130)
Looks good. But does it scale?

And Firefox is not supported?

Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by mordae on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:23AM (#27435570)
Why is this downvoted?

Anyway, this open source alternative doesn't work with the open source browser and suggests to install two proprietary ones instead.

Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by fmeringdal on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:41PM (#27437524)
> And Firefox is not supported?

Sorry about that! I had actually commented out firefox support in the frontend, but I pushed a new updated now that uncommented it.

Firefox is supported

Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by blueblob on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:11PM (#27437933)
Maybe the demo server needs to be restarted, because it still does not work.
Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by fmeringdal on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:16PM (#27438008)
I forgot to update the demo :) Now it works
Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by mfkp on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:14PM (#27440903)
You should consider allowing Edge browser as well (since it's based on Chromium anyway, I imagine it should work fine).
Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by fmeringdal on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:12PM (#27441692)
I thought Edge was supported but I havent tested it. This is a list of the browsers that are supported: https://github.com/fmeringdal/nettu-meet/blob/main/frontend/....

Are you running an old version of edge? If not, do you mind filing a issue in the repository?

Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by mfkp on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:16PM (#27441757)
Ah, that must be the issue. I'm using Edge on Linux (I know, it's weird).

I'll go ahead and file an issue for it now :-)

Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by fmeringdal on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:52AM (#27435215)
It is not horizontally scalable right now, but that is not hard to implement either. You can have a look at the dogehouse project: https://github.com/benawad/dogehouse if you want to see how to horizontally scale mediasoup which is the media handler and stateful process within the servers.

I think vertical scaling will be more than enough for most of the users that are going to self-host this.

Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by lhoff on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:59AM (#27435295)
What would you say is the maximum of users in a single session if everyone has Video sharing activated.
Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by marsouin on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:53AM (#27435222)
I was wondering the same thing. How scalable is it? Any recommendations for deployment/production use?
Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by pmontra on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:46AM (#27435874)
Yep, I wonder what are the technical reasons not to support Firefox. Some missing codec as (maybe) for the lack of support in FaceTime web?
Re:Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online ... by kwindla on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:12AM (#27436244)
Firefox WebRTC support isn't missing anything big, but it's missing a lot of little things from the 1.0 spec that Chrome (and, increasingly, Safari) have. But, much worse from a support perspective, recent Firefox releases have been fairly likely to have WebRTC-related breaking changes and regressions.

We all try to support Firefox. But given the relative usage numbers of Firefox, Chrome/Chromium/Electron/Edgium, and Safari, it's sometimes hard to devote resources to testing and workarounds.