Hi, > With my GNOME hat on, we are not spending much effort on our instant > messaging features. For a free software desktop, XMPP was by far the > most useful and mature part of Telepathy. Google, Facebook and > Microsoft has either moved away from XMPP or deprecated it, while > Telegram and Whatsapp use something different.
WhatsApp uses XMPP. It is slightly modified to force people to use the official client, but it is XMPP. > > None of the XMPP-based free VoIP options ever worked reliably. They > were spotty at best. That was years ago. Look at Jitsi, the Jitsi video bridge and Jitsi Meet. The main issue with XMPP-based VoIP is client implementations. XMPP-VoIP never worked reliably in Telepathy because Telepathy's implementation of XMPP-VoIP is horrible. I don't mean to be rude, and I think the Telepathy developers sure do a good job, but please do not blame it on XMPP itself. > Given how hard it is to support any of the popular instant messaging > networks, a free software IM stack looks increasingly pointless. Maybe > someone will come up with a mature Telegram implementation ... Given the above, please all stop whining and start get Telepathy back on track, thus bringing XMPP forward by providing another well-working client, instead of bringing support for proprietary protocols forward! Cheers, Nik -- PGP-Fingerprint: 3C9D 54A4 7575 C026 FB17 FD26 B79A 3C16 A0C4 F296 Dominik George · Mobil: +49-151-61623918 Teckids e.V. · FrOSCon e.V. · OpenRheinRuhr e.V. Fellowship of the FSFE · Piratenpartei Deutschland Opencaching Deutschland e.V. · Debian Contributor LPIC-3 Linux Enterprise Professional (Security)
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