What can I use to add text and video-chat to a community website? (programming.dev)

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I have a community-based website and I'd like to add a text and video-chat feature to it. I'd like it to be text-first and video second, so you don't have to be streaming to be in the room and for the main part, to be text. Everything I find is video-only. I can host the video streaming data myself.

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[-] foster@lemmy.hangdaan.com 2 points 2 days ago

You can try out Peer Calls. It's a peer-to-peer video and text chat that uses WebRTC, and is very lightweight. You can either use the flagship instance or self-host your own. One of the disadvantages is that text messages are not stored and are lost when the chat room is closed.

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