I’m looking for something that can do chat, video calling with support for guess links and chats. I need it to work in the browser so I can send people a link to a chat session. Bonus if it has a simple mobile app and calendar integration.

Anyone know of something that isn’t Nextcloud Chat?

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    1 hour ago

    I use jami but i dont think it fits your need for guess links.

    Still leave it here just in case

    https://jami.net/

    Jami is a free/libre, end-to-end encrypted, and private communication software.

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    7 hours ago

    Huly is pretty amazing and has a self host option. It supports chats and video calls, team rooms, and has some cool integration for speech to text note taking. It also functions as a task tracker.

    Under super active development right now so host only if you can deal with occasional breaking changes.

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    9 hours ago

    You want either mattermost or the whole matrix stack (backend, plus element with voice/video calls).

    Matrix/Element is more of a discord alternative, whereas mattermost tries to be more of a slack alternative, where it seems to have some calendar integrations.

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    13 hours ago

    There is no way to do what teams does without significant infrastructure. Same with Slack and others.

    If you want something that just gets close to the mark, look at Jitsi. It’s about as complete as you could expect for just video/voice.

    What you may not understand about conferencing platforms is that they are dozens of different hosted services working together to provide a cohesive UE. Video, SIP, VOIP, auth, identity…these are all separate services that are deployed as microservices to get what you get. If you find the bare minimum of the services you actually need, you can probably cobble something together, but it’s not going to be a simple running of one service to get the same experience.

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      13 hours ago

      I’m hosting a matrix server with a TURN server and it’s fairly easy to selfhost. This sounds exaggerated.

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      It isn’t that hard. All I’m looking for is a chat/video call service. Jitsi is close but it purely does video calling. I want something that is a chat where guests can join a group with a link. That shouldn’t take much. (It didn’t with Nextcloud)

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        7 hours ago

        Then write a howto instead of asking here. That shouldn’t take much.

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          Honestly I might put that on my list of cool projects

          It is easier than you think. There are libraries that do Firewall/NAT traversal automatically so the hard part would be making the UI

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            1 hour ago

            It is easier than you think.

            I never said how easy I think it is so what are you basing this response on?

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        Jitsi is close but it purely does video calling.

        Not sure what you mean by that. Turn off the camera and you’ve got an audio chat.

        I want something that is a chat where guests can join a group with a link.

        That’s exactly how Jitsi works.

        Signal is not self hosted but they also support videoconference style calls.

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        12 hours ago

        Well if “it shouldn’t take much”, then it shouldn’t be hard to find a solution, right?

        I’m now wondering why you’re here asking this question if you fully understand what you’re asking about.

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            11 hours ago

            Right? I just want to self-host something like Google and all their services, but free. It also has to run on an AMD K6-2 with 1GB of DDR1 RAM and under 20GB for storage. Please don’t ask me any questions, I know exactly what I’m doing.

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    10 hours ago

    Anyone know of something that isn’t Nextcloud Chat?

    Do you absolutely need to put ONE tag on it all and say this is it?

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    6 hours ago

    If you don’t mind seperated tools that do well in their own :

    • Zulip for chat
    • Jitsi for video meeting
    • And whatever calendar you want for the calendar
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    I have not tried Matrix yet but I hear it’s a good replacement, fashioned more to the likes of Discord but I think it has everything you’re looking for