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Comment by philipov | Hacker News Reader

Does Discord have screen sharing yet?

Yes but having tried it recently it provides very poor quality. The entire time the screen was blurry. Couldn't make out a single piece of text.

From what I understand before they rolled it out to everyone the system worked perfectly so it's just an issue of them scaling their backend.

No idea why they don't just use WebRTC for video&audio though.

I think that's what roll20 uses for it's video and it leads to constant "Oh I can't see you but I can see everyone else" and just constant fiddling to reconnect people.

How recently? We’ve made strides in screen share quality over the past few weeks.

Yesterday. We were unable to look at some code together. We had to sit and wait 2 or 3 minutes before I could start to make out text.

What kind of codec are you using? Are you using Amazon's streaming service or did you roll your own?

I've never had any huge issues with the screen sharing. Being limited to 720p kind of blows, but they have a product to sell. My only complaint is that sometimes when you stop the screen share, it leaks, a process consuming a huge amount of CPU time is left running, and Discord has to be started for it to go away. I'm guessing this will be promptly fixed, but we'll see.

It's only in DMs as well. We record while letting our audience listen and because of that we can't use video.

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