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A friend recently attempted to chat with me over XMPP on macOS. The result was a nightmare of trying different out of date and poorly supported mac clients. The
by upofadown 6y ago
A friend recently attempted to chat with me over XMPP on macOS. The result was a nightmare of trying different out of date and poorly supported mac clients. They seemed quite used to the process. The logical choice for desktop (Gajim) did not have an app available. The MacPort is wildly out of date. Which is too bad because Gajim supports macOS. It seems that no one can be bothered to package it.
It's like everyone has abandoned MacOS but are too polite to admit it...
- MattJ100 6y agoFor the record, Beagle IM and Monal are both in the macOS app store, open-source and actively maintained XMPP clients. I generally agree with your observation though. I'm not really a macOS developer, but from the sidelines it appears it has become increasingly difficult to develop and ship open software for both Apple operating systems. See for example this discussion from a few months ago ("Can't you just right-click?"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217116
- neilalexander 6y agoIt’s not clear from your comment if everyone has abandoned macOS or if everyone has abandoned XMPP.
- upofadown 6y agoGajim specifically has support for macOS and is well maintained. It is available on pretty much every desktop OS. No one has even bothered to package it for macOS even though it would be quite easy to do so. So it would have to be the case that macOS users in particular have abandoned XMPP.