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JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Personally, I feel like this is really generous pricing Compare it to, e.g. Slack ( https://app.slack.com/plans/T01JN93179R?geocode=en-gb ) or Zoom ( https://zoom.us/pricing ) Notwithstanding any accounting issues raised by worble, which I'm sure will be ironed out over time

This is like people saying fastmail pricing is reasonable because other providers gyp you too.

it isn't? i used it for years and been very happy.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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post #59
post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I feel like this is really generous pricing Compare it to, e.g. Slack ( https://app.slack.com/plans/T01JN93179R?geocode=en-gb ) or Zoom ( https://zoom.us/pricing ) Notwithstanding any accounting issues raised by worble, which I'm sure will be ironed out over time

This is like people saying fastmail pricing is reasonable because other providers gyp you too.

I don't get it, what's wrong with fastmail's pricing? I've been a customer for years and never thought much about it.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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post #59

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This is like people saying fastmail pricing is reasonable because other providers gyp you too.

it isn't? i used it for years and been very happy.

The marginal cost of the service they provide is like 10% of what they charge, or even less.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Is it only available for MacOS? When I go to the download page, it only shows me download for MacOS.

Under the download button it says: > or join the waitlist for Windows and Linux

But that Typeform has too many questions.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Looking for pricing, I get to this page: https://www.8x8.com/products/apis/video >We're charging on a Monthly Active User (MAU) >Pricing starts at $0.35/MAU and decreases based on volume. >An MAU is defined as a unique user who attended at least one meeting, with at least one other user, in the same month. To determine a unique user, we store an identifier on the device's local storage, and that will remain the same…

I would still like to see an answer to the questions above. In particular, does a user who connects on three devices count as three MAUs?

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

#66
Jitsi is great and we've been using it for some time.

We switched from a custom WebRTC because error handling becomes too complex with browser permissions and connection.

It does work much better, however there are still a few times that video just doesn't work, with no way to debug why

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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post #63

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it isn't? i used it for years and been very happy.

The marginal cost of the service they provide is like 10% of what they charge, or even less.

Do you go to restaurants expecting to pay only the total cost of ingredients for your meal? Fastmail provides an excellent service and if anything I feel as though I underpay for what I'm getting. I'm happy to know they have a healthy margin to pay their developers from and improve the product.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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I tried to run a Jitsi server. It's a madness full of Docker impossible things to run and a very long and confusing configuration file. I wonder why can't these things be provided as binaries with a simple set of settings. Now they offer Jitsi as a service for free up to 25 users? That's great though. It should cover 99% of normal people use cases, so no one will use meet.jit.si anymore.

> I tried to run a Jitsi server. It's a madness full of Docker impossible things to run and a very long and confusing configuration file.

Sorry to hear that. Any chance you can provide some more details on what you tried and didn't work? I'd like to improve on this.

> I wonder why can't these things be provided as binaries with a simple set of settings.

That's kind of what they already are, but at certain degree of complexity it unfortunately leaks back to the user.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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I really like Jitsi. I've been running it on a Digital Ocean droplet for my own use.

The one feature I've been missing is remote control during a screen sharing session. I understand it was removed for security reasons (https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/431). Are there any plans to implement the feature again in the future?

Thanks!

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