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There are three better open source alternative to this: Nextcloud, Matrix/Element and BigBlueButton. All three have a way better interface than this.

Nextcloud is more oriented towards storing files but recently gained tons of social features (video chat, messaging) and has since some time already document editing with LibreOffice online and a build in document editor. There are also tons of other features like LDAP integration, calendars, ...

Matrix/Element is oriented towards messaging between organizations and inside organizations. Element also support video chat and contains an Etherpad integration for document editing.

BigBlueButton is not great for messaging but is excellent for video chatting. It scale a lot better for big rooms than Nextcloud and Matrix because it doesn't use Jitst and WebRTC, but it doesn't include any document editing.

So yeah OpenMeetings is not really a flagship open source software and I'm wondering how it ended up in the front page of HN.

parent ognarb 6 years ago

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