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linagora/hublin
DEPRECATED - An easy and free video conference service based on WebRTC
Hublin was a browser-based WebRTC video conferencing app — join a room by URL, no account required. It's been explicitly deprecated since at least 2021, last pushed February of that year. Node 8 (EOL 2019), MongoDB 2.6.5 (EOL 2016), AngularJS — this is a museum piece.
The plugin-free, link-based room model was genuinely simple and worked before the era of Zoom fatigue. The Janus gateway integration for scalable SFU routing shows they thought past the naive mesh-WebRTC limit. The module system (analytics plugins, i18n, pubsub) has reasonable separation for a 2016-era Express app. Docker Compose setup with optional Janus is well-documented for its time.
Deprecated — the README says so in the first line, and it means it. Node 8, MongoDB 2.6.5, and AngularJS 1.x are all years past end-of-life; you'd be patching CVEs before writing a single feature. The build toolchain is Grunt + Bower, both effectively dead. WebRTC adapter shims are vendored as a static file, so any browser compat fixes require manual updates. No TURN server configuration in the defaults, so it will silently fail behind symmetric NATs for many users.