with skype’s demise on the horizon, there’s bound be an influx of potential converts. I may have a client that I’m looking into switching over, for super-selfish reasons - I don’t want to endure the torture called Teams and I’d like to spare those people the same.

I run a selfhosted matrix instance, so I don’t think there’s gonna be an issue with installing one for them. however I haven’t got experience with something they need often - screen sharing, both in 1-on-1 and group chats.

does it work for you, were there issues? what server do you use, selfhosted or matrix.org? thanks

  • Ekky
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    1 day ago

    I tried installing Matrix with the Element web interface a few days past, and was positively surprised by the VoIP and screenshare.

    I always thought that Matrix was this dusty old legacy from times long forgotten, but once the images were spun up and the reverse proxy configured, it didn’t take long to setup a small test community and invite a friend.

    There’s a beta option to enable screenshare in a room, but we found that you can screenshare in any voice room despite the setting. We only tested with simple visuals like videos and text documents, where we got small amounts of artifacting, so I’m not sure about the compression and throughput, but I hope it’ll be enough for gaming.