✨ Feature Suggestion | Personal voice calling vs group calling #2303

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2021-05-24T22:19:43Z

lrq3000 commented

2021-05-24 22:19:43 +00:00

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Description

Instant messengers currently lists under Voice/Video Calling only the softwares that allows for group calling. This gives a false sense to the lambda user that only these softwares can be used for voice/video calls.

However, the instant messengers section includes a mix of softwares allowing for voice calls (Signal, Element) and others which only supports textual messages (Briar, maybe soon Session).

Nevertheless, 1-on-1 encrypted voice calls is a pretty common use case. Hence, I'd suggest to:

Rename "Voice/Video Calling" to "Group Voice/Video Calling", to emphasize that it is primarily intended for group/work use cases.
Either create a new section "Personal Voice/Video Calling" or ensure that each software in Encrypted Instant Messengers describe if they support encrypted 1-on-1 voice call, video call or only textual messages. The advantage with the latter is that we would keep the centralized/decentralized/distributed-or-peer-to-peer typology.

## Description Instant messengers currently lists under Voice/Video Calling only the softwares that allows for group calling. This gives a false sense to the lambda user that only these softwares can be used for voice/video calls. However, the instant messengers section includes a mix of softwares allowing for voice calls (Signal, Element) and others which only supports textual messages (Briar, maybe soon Session). Nevertheless, 1-on-1 encrypted voice calls is a pretty common use case. Hence, I'd suggest to: 1. Rename "Voice/Video Calling" to "Group Voice/Video Calling", to emphasize that it is primarily intended for group/work use cases. 2. Either create a new section "Personal Voice/Video Calling" or ensure that each software in Encrypted Instant Messengers describe if they support encrypted 1-on-1 voice call, video call or only textual messages. The advantage with the latter is that we would keep the centralized/decentralized/distributed-or-peer-to-peer typology.