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> battery life / fast reconnection (aka, the mobile problem) Don't see what to reply here > push notifications Solved…

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Observed mentions: 2014-03-25 02:22:30 UTC to 2020-04-27 07:51:37 UTC.

02462014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2020

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

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arm·Aug 26, 2016
Yep. In addition to that, it’s also FOSS¹ and you aren’t limited to only getting it from the Google Play Store; it’s also distributed² on F-Droid³ too. One thing to note though is that the version of Conversations on F-Droid doesn’t support push notifications, since that functionality uses Google Cloud Notifications. ―――――― ¹ — https://github.com/siacs/Conversations ² — https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=eu.siacs.convers... ³ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Droid
In “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
e12e·Jul 13, 2016
I think this is taking it to the next level, even for Google. They now make hangouts be on parity with Allo, except for no opt-in end-to-end encryption? Or is the difference that Allo allows encryption, and Hangouts allow group video chat? BTW, I know I've used videochat via hangouts on Android some time in the past two years - but I guess maybe that was through chrome? The good news is that there's some work on the open XMPP side, with conversations[1] (along with the OMEMO protocol [2]) and zom.im [3] -- so it looks like we're set for another xmpp revolution. And if that fails, there's always Matrix[4] (And the best part of that is that it's not either/or - we can have both. And everyone else can rot in their crummy message silos. Good riddance). [1] https://github.com/siacs/Conversations [2] https://conversations.im/omemo/ [3] https://
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github.com/zom/zom-android [4] https://matrix.org/
In Google Hangouts Removes Merged SMS Conversations, Adds Video
andrey_utkin·Mar 17, 2016Recommendation phrase
> battery life / fast reconnection (aka, the mobile problem) Don't see what to reply here > push notifications Solved https://github.com/siacs/Conversations#how-do-xep-0357-push-... > "message was only sent to my other client and I didn't see it" Message Carbons XEP-0280, implemented mostly everywhere (except Pidgin) > scrollback Message Archive Mgmt, server-stored chat history (this + carbons gives you chat sync on par with skype). > history search Client app matters. I don't see this function in Conversations (Android), but it is in Gajim and Mcabber, to mention few. > editable messages Sure, XEP-0308. E.g. Gajim enables you to do that. Ctrl+UpArrow and you are editing it, then your conversation/groupchat peers see it edited. > embeddable rich content Images and markup? Sure. Don't know about GIFs, well, maybe that's why Slack took off
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- better support for GIFs. > reliable interop I think this is not quite fair complaint towards software ecosystem which is currently mostly not supported financially. Indeed, this is quite the problem keeping XMPP and mere mortals apart, but XMPP is closer to reliable interop than yet-another-new-slack-killer-company or NIH-driven-community-project. Keep in mind huge variety of existing software and amount of problems resolved. Let's stand on shoulders of giants, not on the mere ground. > my mental model of how a message I create will appear to my viewers doesn't need me to understand 100 different clients and their quirks Not an XMPP problem. In open world, you are safe to assume variety, not sameness. I love my scriptable terminal-based chat client, are you going to deny me in having one? I want a text-to-speech generator to read your messages to me, and free protocol enables me to do that, is your mental model of your message disrupted? I want to have your message translated by some engine and presented in different language, is your mental model of your message disrupted? Or, I am blind and I use Braille terminals, are you going to deny me in using it?
In Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
_jomo·Feb 23, 2016
I agree client quality is not perfect, however XMPP can do a lot of things with the proper extensions. Daniel Gultsch (dev of the Android 'Conversations' client [0]) held an interesting talk [1] in 2015 on modernizing XMPP. He explains a the issues XMPP has/had and how they fixed them. He also covers problems that still exist (or existed at the time) and possible solutions. Highly recommend watching it. 0: https://github.com/siacs/Conversations 1: https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2015-1548-xmpp_2015_-_challeng...
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