Hey everyone.

I make Peersuite, an opensource free communication platform.

It’s private by default, there’s no sign-in or email collection.

It’s peer-to-peer, there’s no server, after discovery you are connected directly to your friends my AES-GCN encrypted WebRTC channels. It forms a mesh and identifies superpeers. Because there is no server, in order to save your data between sessions, you can download your workspace into a password encrypted file. Happy to answer any questions.

FEATURES:

  • chat with images, PMs, channels, and file send
  • group audio/video calling
  • screensharing
  • kanban board
  • whiteboard for diagrams/flowchartswith PNG export
  • collaborative document editing with formatted PDF export

The best way for self hosting is docker, its on dockerhub as openconstruct/peersuite. You can also download desktop versions from the github or use on the web at https://peersuite.space/

github - https://github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite

  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    It’s html and javascript, the release comes with loose chromium files, ffmpeg binary and a 190MB executable. The link typo hasn’t been fixed in hours, they don’t link to the github, they misuse terminology, etc. and it’s version 0.3.

    That’s a no from me.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
      2·
      9 days ago

      The link typo hasn’t been fixed in hours,

      Whoa, hey, they’re not paid on-call. Give it a few days.

    • jerry@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      9 days ago

      That’s fair, the project is about a month old, the electron releases will get an installer for some platforms.

      • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        8 days ago

        Yeah it’s an early version and I have no doubt that you guys will make it a lot neater, and it seems like a nice project. I just think it breaks several basic rules of privacy and security oriented programming, which is why I don’t think it’s a good fit for this community just yet.

  • dingleberrylover@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 days ago

    OK, so I tested Peersuite with a friend and I have to say: wow! We have collected a bit of feedback we would like to share:

    Positive: The audio, video and screenshare quality is outright amazing and much better than Discord. We had no crackling, delays or any other disturbances in any of those features. The UI is simple and functional, and everything is snappy and fast. It is also very easy to setup a workspace and to find yourself around the overall UI.

    Negatives: There appears to be no option to also share audio while screensharing, which currently is a major drawback for us. There is no dedicated audio channel. As soon as someone starts an audio call, you’ll hear the person no matter what. Only if you purposely join the call, will the others hear you. Opting in and out of an audio channel like in Teamspeak or Discord would be nice. When my friend started a video call, the audio input of the webcam’s microphone got activated, so I heard him twice. When he turned off the video call, the webcam’s microphone stayed activated. Once someone shared their screen or their webcam and turned it off later, you would still see them in the video and screenshare menu but with the picture being black. We would expect to be gone when closing the stream. There is no option to adjust the volume of an individual user. It would be nice to assign users to carts or columns on the Kanban Board. It would be nice to adjust the size of the Collaborative Whiteboard.

    It might seem like we are complaining a lot, but we actually really like the experience so far, so thank you very very much!! Once you can also share audio with your screen, and once we can setup our own persistent server (and maybe be able to adjust the volume or mute a user, and have the audio room a bit more isolated from the rest), we are ready to jump ship.

    • jerry@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      7 days ago

      Awesome! Real world testing finds things I never have! I’m going to improve a lot of things based on this, thanks for the input.

      I have actually never thought of audio while screensharing, In my head it was mainly for people to watch videos and games. That’s an easy fix. Opting out of audio is easy enough. Audio and Vido shouldnt happen at the same time, thats a bug. Seeing a blackscreen after sharing is also a bug. I can implement per-user volume easily enough. User assignments in kanban is already on the roadmap. Adjusting the size of the whiteboard, this one is probably not going to happen. It was a real struggle getting it working as good as it does now. It should scale to your screen for the most part. I may re-implement Zoom in/out for drawing.

      It doesn’t sound like complaining, this is what I need, thank you for your input!!

  • dingleberrylover@lemmy.world
    0·
    8 days ago

    This looks very promising, thank you very much! Going to fully test it out tomorrow.

    Is there anything planned to have a persistent server option (self-hosted)?

    • jerry@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      8 days ago

      Yes, I plan to create a node server for permanent rooms. It will allow you to name the server, which then acts like a superpeer and keeps the workspace open and saves progress every 10-30 minutes.

      • dingleberrylover@lemmy.world
        0·
        8 days ago

        Wonderful! The possibility to spontaneously hop on the server to look whether a friend is online or not is very important at least for us compared to the necessity of having to set up the room each time (which would require us to coordinate beforehand that we want to hangout in a voice channel).

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    9 days ago

    I don’t want to rain on your parade, but to claim you’re a Discord alternative is like saying a box is a an alternative to a luxury resort. You’ve got a lot of work to do before being a Discord alternative.