Thumbnail Reordering

[VictorAE]

Hi,
stable/jitsi-meet_8044
*** ref(filmstrip) Remove the option to disable thumbnail re-ordering.**

It is not clear why the option was removed.
How now to stop the re-ordering of tiles?

[shawn]

Screenshare with sendMultipleVideostreams enabled does not work in tile view

Please be advised that disabling enableThumbnailReordering is not supported anymore. The config was only added so that we can test it on our deployments (as is the case with all settings under the testing section) before we enable it by default. Thumbnail re-ordering has been enabled by default for a while now and we will removing the option to disable it soon. We do not intent to support the other mode.

Setting enableThumbnailReordering to false breaks screenshare in grid view?

Hi @Freddie, reordering is very useful for large conferences where everyone is not visible, it brings the dominant speakers and screensharing participants to the top so that they are always visible. Also its easier to find a particular participant if the tiles in the filmstrip are all alphabetically sorted. A lot of improvements have been since the first iteration to not reorder the tile if everyone is already visible. So there should be no impact on smaller conferences. Please give it a try and…