WildYorkies
Ideas for an Open Source Discord
I remember seeing on the Elixir subreddit a long time ago that a user was building a Discord alternative (Probably because Discord mines all data for profit and is closed source).
I doubt that project kept going (it’s quite ambitious after all).
But I wanted to open this thread to discuss ideas about how such a thing could be built.
Building a group chat application in Elixir should be fairly straightforward. However, the biggest hurdle would likely be the group audio.
I know Discord uses WebRTC (with their own enhancements), but I’ve also seen someone suggest using Mumble as the audio backend.
Thoughts?
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idi527
I’m continuing to work on elixir integration with janus (now via websockets instead of unix sockets), and have a very preliminary example: https://github.com/janus-ex/janus_ws_example.
axelson
You might want to look into the Elixir Membrane Framework if you need to do any server-side audio processing: https://www.membraneframework.org/
brightball
Plus, there’s already Mongoose from Erlang Solutions. Would be interesting to just build on top of what’s already there.
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