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Or maybe something like… the existing IETF standard for IM: XMPP. With plenty of implementations, support across the globe, servers that can scale up to million
by edhelas 7y ago
Or maybe something like… the existing IETF standard for IM: XMPP. With plenty of implementations, support across the globe, servers that can scale up to millions of sessions.
- metildaa 7y agoConversations is the only decent XMPP client, and server XEP support is a mess. Its unusable for normal people if you want to use any kind of advanced features.
- Nux 7y agoI concur, tried to adopt it at dayjob when HipChat closed, but it was impossible. Conversations IM client is alright, but we couldn't find a client for IOS that just worked. It's mission impossible. I hope they go for Matrix, like France did, but I get a feeling they'll be hit hard by NIH.
- upofadown 7y agoYeah, iOS XMPP client support does seem to be the issue. Riot gets cross platform support from electron. Perhaps the world needs an electron based XMPP client... One relatively low effort path for a government might be to simply adopt something like Chatsecure and fix it.
- pgeorgi 7y agoI found Monal (monal.im) to be a better maintained iOS client than Chatsecure, very responsive developer, too.
- jcbrand 7y agoIt would be perfectly fine for the Indian gov to fork Conversations and deploy their own XMPP servers, thereby not having to worry about sever XEP support.
- baroffoos 7y agoMatrix already does those things and a lot more.
- rakoo 7y agoMatrix has shown in the past that it has had issues scaling to the demand. XMPP has shown in real life cases that it can scale to millions of simultaneously connected users. I'm not saying that Matrix is bad, or that XMPP is definitely better, but the facts are there and we'd better stick to that than hold on how we feel about each piece of technology.