[Discuss] Meet.jit.si limits meetings to 95 minutes

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

We probably should host jitsi, but only for blu and natick FOSS meetings so
we can determine if the bandwidth is ok.

Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unix
http://www.blu.org/

On Oct 18, 2026 1:57 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Randall,

Thanks for pointing that out. Edward Piecewicz mentioned it as well.

Upon looking into it, I found that we can continue our meetings in a new
session.

At our recent BLU meeting, we tested a new mechanism I developed for
reliably recording our Jitsi meetings. It records a Chromium tab and saves
the output into .webm files in 10-second chunks, which I then assemble into
a single file using ffmpeg after the meeting. The recording persists across
a migration to a new Jitsi session, provided it stays in the same Chromium
tab.

To support this, I set up a cron job to generate random Jitsi session URLs.
It runs on the third Wednesday of each month with the following schedule:

  - 6:30 PM: Writes the primary blu.org meeting URL.
  - 7:45 PM & 8:45 PM: Writes randomized meeting URLs.
  - 9:45 PM: Displays a notice that there is no active BLU meeting.

This setup prevents anyone from joining a new session early and thereby
cutting short its expiration time.

You can view the live result at https://blu.org/jitsi-id.

For this week's meeting, we plan to switch to the new session at 8:00 PM,
and if needed, switch again at 9:00 PM.

Best regards,
John Abreau

On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 1:29?PM Randall Rose <rrose at pobox.com> wrote:

> Jitsi announced that they have recently imposed a 95-minute limit to
> meet.jit.si, which BLU has been using.  Apparently the new rule is that,
> for any given meeting URL on meet.jit.si, sessions end after 95 minutes
> and cannot be restarted until after a 24-hour cooloff period.
> https://community.jitsi.org/t/changes-coming-to-meet-jit-si/142673
>
>
https://community.jitsi.org/t/update-on-meeting-reusability-after-the-95m-limit/142722
>
>
https://community.jitsi.org/t/update-on-meeting-reusability-after-the-95m-limit/142722/4
>
> Self-hosted Jitsi Meet (not on meet.jit.si) would be one way to avoid
> this limit.
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