[Galene] Re: Galène for bigger meeting (10-15 people) - problems and UX questions

[Tim Panton <tim@pi.pe>]

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With 10 or 15 people you are going to need pretty good connectivity to the server for it to work. A minimum of 100Mbit/s uplink. 

Did you have that ?

I use the bare metal install for a 6-8 person group on a self hosted old server with a 100mbit uplink and it works ok, but I have also decreased the default video quality to low.
(Which is enough for a big group unless you are screen sharing).

Our experience in the past is that Galène does not really like being on an asymmetric connection with more downlink than uplink bitrate, somehow the bandwidth estimation gets confused. 

Tim.

> On 16 Jul 2026, at 15:19, Valent Turković <valent@meshpointone.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am testing Galène on my own server with the Docker image. The install works fine, technically Galène works without problem.
> 
> I tested it quite wide - with my two phones, laptop on Linux and desktop on Windows, also iPhone and iPad. Browsers: Firefox on Linux, Brave on Windows. So really many different platforms and browsers.
> 
> First I tested with some colleagues who are more technical, and it went ok. Maybe one person had audio problem, but that was some strange Android in a bus, so maybe it was the internet.
> 
> But yesterday I had one big fail for a meeting of around 10-15 people. I gave them the link to my test server. First thing, when they came to the login window, they were confused because there is username AND password field, even it is a test room that does not need password. This confused them right away. So I commented out the password field in the UI, to have only login field, and this helped.
> 
> But still many of them had technical problems - for some the audio did not work, some had glitches. Here is some direct feedback from the people (it is honest, maybe sometimes it hurts, but it is the truth):
> - Mirek: "We needed a 'raise hand' button and didn't find one, otherwise everything worked afaik"
> - DJ Stern: "I didn't hear or see anyone" and "it was visually glitching out between the text chat and attendees view"
> - Patrik: "oyea when dj joined chat window was popping up and closing kinda"
> - Daya: "I tried all three options numerous times as kept getting kicked out but it seemed to randomly work on all three at times"
> 
> In the end the people gave up on Galène and we switched to Google Meet - even it was me who is pushing that we use Galène, so for me this is not nice.
> 
> My feeling is there is quite a lot of UI/UX problems here. For example, by default it asks "what you want - microphone, or microphone + camera". My guess is that many people who had problems did not understand what this means, and they left it on default "none", and that is why their audio did not work.
> 
> Because of this I would even suggest that by default this question is not asked - hide it under some "advanced" button, or put it somewhere after login. I don't really understand why someone would log in to a room as chat only. Let the camera and microphone be off by default, but the browser must have the permissions, because otherwise for a big number of people Galène is useless - it will make problems and they simply will not use it.
> 
> So my question: who used Galène in such situation, with 10-15 people, and what problems did you have? Because clearly there are still some bugs that are not solved.
> 
> Thanks,
> Valent
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Valent Turković
> CEO
> valent@meshpointone.com <mailto:valent@meshpointone.com>
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