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Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by huhtenberg »

dagingaa wrote: post #41
abcd_f wrote: post #34

Failed to get camera access. Please grant camera access to use appear.in I have no idea how.

Which browser and OS are you on? Depending on that, it should be somewhere near the top. Firefox has a tendency to close the accept dialogue if you change tabs, and you can retrieve it by clicking the camera icon in the address bar. Unfortunately there is no way for us to improve this UX from our end, but we are working on more informative "waiting" pages.

Same here. Firefox 26 on Windows 7. No popups, no messages, no camera icon, no clues whatsoever as to how to "grant camera an access to use appear.in".

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by tonyg »

dagingaa wrote: post #27
phaer wrote: post #26

Is there some sort of end to end encryption available for this or any other WebRTC-based VOIP app?

Developer on appear.in here: Everything between peers is encrypted using SRTP end-to-end by default. From our FAQ: "All communication between your browser and appear.in is transmitted over an encrypted connection (SSL). Video and audio transmitted in the service is sent directly between the participants in a room and is encrypted (SRTP) with client generated encryption keys. In some cases, due to NAT/firewall restric…

What about the text chat messages?

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by dagingaa »

tonyg wrote: post #53
dagingaa wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Developer on appear.in here: Everything between peers is encrypted using SRTP end-to-end by default. From our FAQ: "All communication between your browser and appear.in is transmitted over an encrypted connection (SSL). Video and audio transmitted in the service is sent directly between the participants in a room and is encrypted (SRTP) with client generated encryption keys. In some cases, due to NAT/firewall restric…

What about the text chat messages?

At this point in time, all chat messages are relayed through our server. These messages are sent over an encrypted socket to our server, then relayed. This means that we do have the ability to read the messages (they're not encrypted), but we do not store them, read them, or in any way allow your privacy to be compromised knowingly.

We have strict access controls to the server, but the messages are sent via Amazon. We realise that this is not ideal, and we want to, when the DataChannels API has matured a bit, move message sending to a strict P2P model as well. There are some issues with that (total ordering of messages for one) which need to be solved first, but we're positive that those challenges can be solved.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by dagingaa »

ansimionescu wrote: post #55

I just tried it with 2 friends and it works amazingly well. There are few things lately that I can say blew my mind - but this has. Really nice fucking job!

Developer @ appear.in here. I've been following this thread today, answering some questions and reporting bugs back to the team. I would just like to say a big and sincere thank you for this comment. I just posted it to our internal mailing list. In all honesty, feedback like yours truly make our day, motivates us, and makes us work even harder to create a kickass service. So again, thank you!

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Post by shahar2k »

dEtEriOr wrote: post #4

https://talky.io/hn https://opentokrtc.com/hn https://apprtc.appspot.com/?r=hn http://caatch.me https://vline.com

I've had recent issues with the pc (dev) version of chrome and most of these (talky, opentok and vline specifically) just freeaing eventually... although I have to say I do love that they exist at all, and they work fantastically on android chrome.
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