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>synchronizing chats between clients, The Carbons XEP[0] is now fairly widely supported and does exactly this. >user-friendly mobile clients. Conversations[1

by catern 12y ago

>synchronizing chats between clients, The Carbons XEP[0] is now fairly widely supported and does exactly this. >user-friendly mobile clients. Conversations[1] is excellent and is free software. >push notifications The centralized system of push notifactions on Android and iOS is not yet supported, it's true, but XMPP with its extensions has pretty good support for battery-constrained devices with intermittent network connections. I use XMPP across multiple devices with my own server to communicate to other people running their own server and it works great. Setting up your own server is extremely easy ("apt-get install prosody" works out of the box on Debian; stay away from ejabberd which is a pain) and I highly recommend it. [0] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0280.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0280.html [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conve...

vbezhenar 12y ago
Thanks, I'll look into that. I'm more interested with iOS and OS X apps (though Pidgin works well for OS X). And iOS doesn't permit messaging apps to work in background as far as I know, so push notifications are needed for comfort work. Though I'm usually near my laptop and probably can live without them.
rakoo 12y ago
> >synchronizing chats between clients, > The Carbons XEP is now fairly widely supported and does exactly this I'll add MAM (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html) for messages you didn't receive because one of your resources was offline, which Conversations does, along with at least Gajim. > The centralized system of push notifactions on Android and iOS is not yet supported It's coming (http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html)
drdaeman 12y ago
Not to diminish the good sides, but multi-device XMPP experience is a quite complicated matter even today. For example, you'll have to give up on OTR, and you'll have to choose the software carefully.
- StavrosK 12y ago
  You don't really have to give up on OTR, but OTR has to get a lot more user-friendly for that use case. Right now it breaks all over the place, and with some really obvious bad UX, too.

by catern 12y ago

vbezhenar 12y ago

Thanks, I'll look into that. I'm more interested with iOS and OS X apps (though Pidgin works well for OS X). And iOS doesn't permit messaging apps to work in background as far as I know, so push notifications are needed for comfort work. Though I'm usually near my laptop and probably can live without them.

rakoo 12y ago

> >synchronizing chats between clients, > The Carbons XEP is now fairly widely supported and does exactly this I'll add MAM (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html) for messages you didn't receive because one of your resources was offline, which Conversations does, along with at least Gajim. > The centralized system of push notifactions on Android and iOS is not yet supported It's coming (http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html)

drdaeman 12y ago

Not to diminish the good sides, but multi-device XMPP experience is a quite complicated matter even today. For example, you'll have to give up on OTR, and you'll have to choose the software carefully.

StavrosK 12y ago
You don't really have to give up on OTR, but OTR has to get a lot more user-friendly for that use case. Right now it breaks all over the place, and with some really obvious bad UX, too.