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> There's a reason that everyone using Conversations essentially has to use a server that is maintained by the developers. That is completely untrue. First of
by inputmice 10y ago
> There's a reason that everyone using Conversations essentially has to use a server that is maintained by the developers.
That is completely untrue. First of all there are public servers that have exactly the same feature set like jabber.at second of all we are running ejabberd on conversations.im. ejabberd is open source can be run by anyone. You just have to do it. Granted the list of public servers with a full feature set is not as long as we'd like. But the best way of changing this is to run one yourself.
- inputmice 10y agoIt's impossible to get reliably statistics in a federated system. (Which of course is the entire point.) but looking at the little data I have from people sending me bug reports over XMPP at seems that a lot of Conversations users are running their own servers. The problem is not that the extensions are not implemented (Both prosody and ejabberd in fact support all the extensions Conversations does.) but that a lot of public servers out there are second class services for their operators and are not properly maintained. In that case you can either contact them and ask them to upgrade or ask yourself if you want to have an XMPP account on a provider who doesn't maintain their servers.
- mynameislegion 10y agoYou need to think about this from a non-technical user perspective. They'll be using the Conversations server, guaranteed. Because 1) They're not going to run their own server. 2) They're not going to bother researching which servers support Conversations entire featureset. That's why XMPP is garbage for the majority users and why XMPP weenies will stay baffled as to why there aren't a flood of users using it.