Groupchat 3.0 development - 2026-05-21

This probably isn't the right place to ask this but someone here might have an answer. Is there a standard way of handling calls without needing to invite and ring group chat members? In larger group chats, it has been undesirable to ring the entire membership and members have found it necessary to join well into the call. It seems like it'd be tough to implement using pre-existing standards.

if you don't want all members on the call, maybe it's a different thing than your group?

conceptually

> if you don't want all members on the call, maybe it's a different thing than your group? How do you mean? ↺

Like if the group in your chat is not == the group you want on the call then maybe it's not one "thing"

I suppose it's kinda similar to message notifications, some rooms warrant a ring and others don't

> Like if the group in your chat is not == the group you want on the call then maybe it's not one "thing" I asked the question poorly. It is not that I want to exclude some members from the call. Rather, I want to be able to begin a call and have members join as they are available. This does not seem to exist in current implementations. ↺

right. I think if you want that you want a "thing" that "is the call" that they can join. not to just turn the current chat into a call

That's along the lines of what I was thinking. I'm guessing there are no pre-existing standards in that vein based on how you're describing it.

Maybe spaces are relevant here?

> Maybe spaces are relevant here? then create a voice pubsub node as a component of a space? ↺

not sure what kind of standard you're looking for. this is "just a jingle call"

there's no special things needed really

you need a way to advertise the jid of the call as "related" to the MUC maybe depending on the UI you want

Fantastic. Nothing special needed is best.