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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They added that recently (element-call audio only i mean) its the phone icon at the top

I don't see that. Video, Threads, Room Info, People is all I have at the top of my rooms.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Thats weird? ~~What version of element-desktop are you on? If its element-web it could be that your server is running a outdated version.~~ Its only available in DMs not groupchats. It was added back in december https://github.com/element-hq/element-desktop/releases/tag/v1.12.5

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Its only available in DMs not groupchats

Oh right, nice catch. Yeah I only use it as a Discord alternative, so no audio calls for me yet.

Anyway, audio calls in that way aren't quite what I'm after anyway. They'll work. They'll do the job. Just like the existing video calls with webcams turned off do the job. But the Discord style chat room with an assumption of audio only on voice detection, with robust screensharing (including PC audio!) capabilities in an otherwise audio-only call is what I'm really after.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah the video rooms feature is most of that but not quite. The "call" always stays open so you can join and wait until others join without disrupting them. It has good screensharing but no option to share your output audio. You have to turn off the webcam before joining. The voice detection thing would be cool as an optional thing because it can also cause problems. I just use a filter plugin for that on my computer.