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Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

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Re: Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

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> We had a bit of that with pidgin 8-or-so years ago. 8 years ago? Pidgin still doesn't do MAM today.

Yes, but i haven't met someone who uses Pidgin in more than 5 years. Still, the pidgin team appears to be alive and their blog is always a good read! https://pidgin.im/post/

We've retired the blog in favor of just posting on our discourse as noted in our last blog post ;)

Re: Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

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> Matrix is a much better conceptual fit for the IRC/Slack-like use case Debatable, this mostly boils down to the client design choices and priorities, and has little to nothing to do with the protocol. Someone came-up with a metaphor I like to illustrate it: the banquet and the barbecue¹. XMPP has "barbecue"-style clients like Conversations, Kaidan, Dino?, and other that are rather "banquet"-style like Gajim, Fluux,…

> We had a bit of that with pidgin 8-or-so years ago. 8 years ago? Pidgin still doesn't do MAM today.

Yep, it's hard to run a volunteer project when there's so much work to do...

Re: Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

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Define worse

This is not an exhaustive list, just stuff off the top of my head. Finding/viewing/sharing/joining chats Adding users (can't find them, invites not being received, etc) Broken messaging (messages not arriving, formatting not being handled or handled the same way, even on the same XMPP server!) OMEMO issues (key exchange not working, or OMEMO keys getting lost or something when both clients involved were working perfe…

We (Pidgin) can't fix issues we don't know about. Please report them so we can fix them.

Re: Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

#184

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This is not an exhaustive list, just stuff off the top of my head. Finding/viewing/sharing/joining chats Adding users (can't find them, invites not being received, etc) Broken messaging (messages not arriving, formatting not being handled or handled the same way, even on the same XMPP server!) OMEMO issues (key exchange not working, or OMEMO keys getting lost or something when both clients involved were working perfe…

We (Pidgin) can't fix issues we don't know about. Please report them so we can fix them.

I understand. I don't mean any disrespect, but the few tickets I raised, including crash-related ones, are still in submitted status, awaiting developer replies from many years ago. I'll reconsider putting in tickets again, but understand my frustration.
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