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What can I use to add text and video-chat to a community website? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 days ago by 0101100101@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I have a community-based website and I'd like to add a text and video-chat feature to it. I'd like it to be text-first and video second, so you don't have to be streaming to be in the room and for the main part, to be text. Everything I find is video-only. I can host the video streaming data myself.

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[-] TomAwezome@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

IRC could work as a backend for text chat, Twitch based their chat system on that and heavily modified things. Jitsi, or Jami support video out of the box. Could probably also roll your own with XMPP and WebRTC

[-] 0101100101@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

As much as I love IRC, it's a terribly insecure platform and I'm trying to avoid rolling my own if I can help it, but yeah WebRTC support would be necessary. Do Jitsi support text now, it's always appeared video first to me?

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