electron VS owncast

Still trash support on Linux too. We still cannot stream without frame rate issues and cannot stream audio with our video without piping through our mics. (the community fixed this for you: link)

SteamDeck and Linux users cannot stream properly (constant frame rate issues and absolutely no audio streaming). Its been FIXED by the community for years now (https://github.com/discord/electron/pull/22) but they just don't want to do it I guess?? If you are going to support the platform, SUPPORT THE PLATFORM. I'm not going to give you money for a product that doesn't work.

There is this https://github.com/discord/electron/tree/17-x-y from over half a year ago

But my golly gosh goodness me would I throw them a party in their honor if they would just update their 2 year out of date builtin shipped electron version that prevents all the progress we've made in the past few years from being at all relevant to their client.

You can see Discord's version of Electron on GitHub: This branch is 14 commits ahead, 2140 commits behind electron:main

The article from your quick google share says that you should use getUserMedia to capture the screen using Electron. Not only does Discord's client not use this, they even go as far as to disable it from their electron fork https://github.com/discord/electron/commit/e763956140aa6bf78f02202ab4df1e942ce672ae

They even forcefully disabled support for it in their version of electron, so there isn't even a way to use it via a betterdiscord plugin

The Discord Desktop app uses Electron and their Electron fork's source code is available on Github. If you take a look at their repo you'll see that one of the patches they apply is this one https://github.com/discord/electron/commit/ca8c921ed35c741acae57ea32c340f1eaf150044 that disables getUserMedia.

The Owncast project is planning the early stages of some re-architecting in our Go codebase to prepare for future features. I’d love to chat with you about the project! https://github.com/owncast/owncast

Owncast is what you want.

You can use OwnCast https://owncast.online/ if you host it on your own domain.

The main stage of talks are planned to be live streamed on the Monero Community Workgroup YouTube channel and to an Owncast self-hosted server (URL TBA).

it is, but OwnCast and OpenStreamingPlatform are probably closer to what Twitch does.

I always recommend people to contribute to software they use themselves. For me that is self-hosted servers like Mealie (Python+Vue) and Owncast (Go+React). Especially Owncast is a project that imo is comparatively easy to get into because the setup is kept really simple, documentation is good and the maintainers are super nice :) There are some good first issues, but in addition to that there are also often "debug problem X" issues that imo help one get into a project quick because you'll read a lot of code for them.

I've heard of owncast have not used it myself but might be worth a try