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Comment by tucnak | Hacker News Reader

I'm a big fan of Matrix, but I'm embarrassed to recommend it to my friends until Element X supports audio calls... It's been months since the leading-edge release, and I don't know what to think: there's Element Call, however it's neither supported by Element X nor real alternative to legacy peer-to-peer audio calls.

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Element X doesn't even support Threads or Spaces still, the two things that are absolutely required to organize discussions.

Element X natively integrates Element Call for voip/video calls - this is one of the core things of this week's release. If you hit the video call button, it'll start off with video muted, and it should behave like a voice call (although there are a few bugs in the integration still, hence it being marked beta - especially on iOS, where CallKit + WebRTC stopped working in iOS 18. We're trying to work with Apple on it.)

Unfortunately, that is not the case yet on Element X android (0.7.2 from google playstore). Microphone starts off as muted which is an inconvenience.

Don't know about Element X, but Element supports voice calls very well.

It does but it's also a battery drain on Android :-( Element X works much better.

What do you mean by audio calls? I haven't used Element X yet, but judging from the store screenshots you can turn off the camera in video calls.

I don't want to turn off the camera in the video calls; I wish to have normal audio-only calls like in any other app like Whatsapp where there's a "Phone" button that starts a call.

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