[teampractices] Hangout alternative: appear.in

Matthew Flaschen mflaschen at wikimedia.org
Thu Feb 20 03:05:10 UTC 2014


On 02/19/2014 04:17 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> http://appear.in/ is a WebRTC videoconferencing site hosted by Norwegian
> telcom Telenor. It works absolutely fine for people on Linux. Although
> the source code isn't openly licensed, appear.in <http://appear.in>
> doesn't require that the user install a proprietary plugin, so it's
> better on that count than Hangout. And, like chatb.org
> <http://chatb.org>, it does not demand a login.

If someone wants to try this, let me know.  I had audio problems with 
AppRTC, but HTML 5 audio generally hasn't worked on my system, so it may 
be specific to my machine.

I don't think I got a chance to try chatb either.

Matt Flaschen




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