Hey there, Saul from the Jitsi team :-)
Self-hosting is one of the use cases we spend a lot of time on, recently venturing into a hybrid model with JaaS components.
If there is any pain point with self-hosting, please let us know!
Self-hosting is one of the use cases we spend a lot of time on, recently venturing into a hybrid model with JaaS components.
If there is any pain point with self-hosting, please let us know!
Instead of sharing the ugly CSS-hacks here's just the list of what I've named the buttons, the CSS-hack isn't something I would expect to make it upstream so to say.
From left to right:
- Mic
- Webcam
- Screen share
- Chat
- Hey! (it's willingly ambiguous so that someone might stumble upon the feature in a exploratory manner, we don't really use the "raise hand" function in a serious way)
- This call
- Layout
- More actions
- Leave
"then press the three-lines" makes me feel debased as a human being, like I'm reduced to pictograms because language has been taken from me.
That this isn't a standard part of every software, is part of what's gone wrong with UI/UX in the last decade or so.
Hamburger menu? https://www.mobileapps.com/blog/hamburger-menu
I share your disdain for this sort of UI, but then I'm content with a CLI...
An update led to a dependency issue (I would have to go remind myself which but I think Prosody) and that was that - just a ‘well lets stop supporting Ubuntu 18.04 then’.
I think over time the advice has been to go manually downgrade some packages or try and find the relevant versions somewhere. A more satisfactory solution would be to support the up to date versions of dependencies available to the distribution jitsi is installed on.
We’re getting to the point where this doesn’t matter of course, as 18.04 goes end of life. But you can understand why we are reluctant to recommend jitsi as a stable and reliably maintained option after this experience.
I attempted self hosting it on an RPI4 but the video quality was dropping heavily and stopping alltogether from time to time. I did not see an obvious bottleneck anywhere in the system. The rpi had both ram and cpu to spare, my connection is 1gbps down, 100mbps up. Should be more than enough for two people.
This was early this year. I followed the official guide word-to-word. Others reported similar issues on the official forum so my issue isnt new or unique.
Thank you for your hard work!
The only complaint we had was the mobile performance. Made older phones hot and killed the battery fast.
Other than that great software suite!